Voting for PEP 308 (was Re: For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression)

[Hans Nowak]

I wrote:

> Laura Creighton wrote:
> 
>> Most of the people who don't care will also not be posting.  Or
>> voting. They're probably not reading comp.lang.python, either.  I
>> remember when 2.0 came out and people found out about string methods.
>> A whole bunch of them came back to post articles about how they
>> thought the new join syntax was really awful and ugly.  They only
>> cared after it got in, but enough to complain a lot.
> 
> 
> Hmm, what if bools grew an if() method?  We could then write:
> 
>   z = (x == y).if(whentrue, whenfalse)
> 
> This strikes me as much more elegant than the other proposals.
> 
> (ducking for cover, etc :-)

Or rather, to be more in the spirit of the PEP and the join() method, maybe it 
should be:

   z = whentrue.if(cond, whenfalse)

Of course, all objects would have to grow the if() method for this. :-)

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