One last PEP308 suggestion

Evan Simpson evan at 4-am.com
Tue Feb 18 11:28:40 EST 2003


Marco Mariani wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:49:09AM -0600, Evan Simpson wrote:
>>Its grammar is obviously feasible, it can't be confused with "if", it 
> 
> Yeah!!!! it won't be confused with Python!!!!

Yep :-)

You may have missed it, but throughout my lobbying for the "(if C: t 
else: f)" syntax, people kept objecting that it was too easy to confuse 
with the if statement.  I kept trying to point out that this is an 
*advantage* of the syntax, but finally gave it up.

Cheers,

Evan @ 4-am







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