PEP-308 a "simplicity-first" alternative

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Wed Feb 12 18:15:55 EST 2003


Terry Reedy wrote:

> Yes and no.  You can, in effect, vote it down by voting for a
> replacement that current users of the idiom will switch to.

In effect, but that doesn't justify _any_ conditional operator notation
simply because it is not as ugly as the and/or trick or does not suffer
from its defects.

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