conditional expressions

[Mike Rovner]

"Greg Ewing" <see_reply_address at something.invalid> wrote in message
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> thp at cs.ucr.edu wrote:
>
> Personally, I rather like
>
>     a if b else c
>
> but Guido doesn't like that either, unfortunately.
>
> Perhaps I'll slip it into Pyrex when no-one's looking...:-)

It's not as readable as one think ;)

I, personally, read this as 'take a if b is true else take c' which
corresponds to 'b? a: c' in C.
So, please, don't create ambiguity from nowhere.

gratefully-plex-er-ly yours,
Mike