PEP308: a call for usability studies (was Re: Update to PEP308: if-then-else expression)

[Gareth McCaughan]

Carel Fellinger wrote:

>  why stick with our feelings where the pythonic way is to have
>  usability studies:) So I wook up my daughters, they know about
>  HTML and a little javascript and are big fans of Monty Python.
>  
>  I showed them the following snippets:
>  
>  1)   a = 1
>  
>  2)   if a == 1:
>          b = 2
>       else:
>          b = 3
>  
>  3)   b = 2 if a==1 else 3
>  
>  4)   b = (if a==1: 2 else: 3)
[etc]

Try 'em on

        b = (if a == 1 then 2 else 3)

and see whether that's any less weird to them than #4.

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