PEP-308 a "simplicity-first" alternative
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Tue Feb 11 23:16:03 EST 2003
Terry Reedy wrote:
> "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"?
We can't vote that one down, so whether he likes it more or less than a
broken idiom some people use anyway is really beside the point.
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