PEP 312 value (was: PEP 308: "then" "else" for deprecating "and" "or" side effects)

[Erik Max Francis]

andrew cooke wrote:

> someone did - see pep 312 http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0312.html

It's not entirely clear what this gains us except the omission of the
keyword lambda.  It shortens code that uses it, but does so with a
penalty of introducing more keyword-less, syntactic sugar.  Is PEP 312
really a good idea?

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