For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.1044667433.18175.python-list at python.org>,
 Carlos Ribeiro <cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br> wrote:

> In my opinion, the best thing to do right now is to wait a few days 
> for things to settle down. I'm sure that many people that reacted 
> against it today will get used to the idea fairly quickly, specially 
> if we come up with a slightly better idiom (this one is quite good, 
> but some good candidates for improvement have appeared today, and 
> more will come).

I agree with this suggestion.  I still have yet to decide whether I like 
the new proposal (although I'm pretty sure I like it better than the 
alternatives I've seen here) and I think sitting on it for a few days 
will help me come to a clearer opinion.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/