Proposed PEP for a Conditional Expression

[Rainer Deyke]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at home.com> wrote in message
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> "Greg Ewing" <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
> news:3BA00239.DECE6412 at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz...
> > "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at home.com>:
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> > > I agree that the above is backwards.
> > > <cond> if <expr> else <expr>
> >
> > No! That sounds way too much like Forth!
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> It is exactly like C, whose ? : equivalent is the impetus for the
> proposed change.
> Of course, if you don't like the form of C's conditional expressions,
> you won't like its translation into Python.

C's syntax doesn't overload an already existing keyword, and is therefore
arguably clearer.  None of the proposed keyword-overloading syntaxes mesh
well with list comprehensions.


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