Yet Another PEP308 syntax

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.1044892786.2769.python-list at python.org>,
 Gerrit Holl <gerrit at nl.linux.org> wrote:

> although I am against a ternary operator, here is Yet Another PEP308
> syntax:
> 
> a = ?(test, true_case, false_case)
> or
> a = test?(true_case, false_case)

Why do people keep proposing cryptic punctuation-based syntax for this?
Using punctuation instead of words makes the meaning non-obvious, 
especially to new programmers who have not used C/C++/Java, and so it 
seems unlikely that the BDFL will ever accept it.  Such proposals 
clutter the discussion without making progress towards getting a ternary 
included in the language.

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