PEP 308 syntax suggestions -- a matrix-based approach

[Damien Morton]

Are you suggesting that the community vote on all 144 combinations?

"Carl Banks" <imbosol-1045251534 at aerojockey.com> wrote in message
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> Rather than everyone suggesting their own favorite syntax for PEP 308,
> we could just break down all the suggestions into manageable parts.
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> Consider the following conditional in it's C syntax:
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> a ? b : c
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> Possibilities for a ? b are:
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> 1) a ? b
> 2) a ?? b
> 3) b if a
> 4) if a: b
> 5) when a: b
> 6) a then b
> 7) cond(a,b
> 8) if a:(b
> 9) cond a:(b
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> Possibilities for _ : c are (where _ is whatever you chose for a ? b):
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> 1) _ : c
> 2) _ else c
> 3) _ else: c
> 4) _ || c
> 5) _ | c
> 6) _ ! c
> 7) _,c)
> 8) c if not _
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> The third dimension of this matrix has two possibilities:
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> 1) Parentheses not required
> 2) Parentheses required
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> So instead of all these long, silly new syntax suggestions, we can
> just site our favorite combination in the matrix.  At worst, we have
> to add a new possibility to one of the dimensions.
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> (Personally, I prefer PEP308[1,1,1])
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