"Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:7xr8aenyj1.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com... > I intensely dislike "x and y else z". "Explicit is better than > implicit" to me specifically means avoiding this type of cutesy > overloading. Do you intensely dislike it more or less than the current idiom "x and y or z"? TJR