PEP 308: Helping Aahz to set up the ballot.

[Gareth McCaughan]

James J. Besemer wrote:
>  Although Erik's list is interesting, I see no reason to confuse the issue 
>  with random alternatives that did not get incorporated into the PEP.  Most 
>  were crap and some were impossible.
>  
>  E.g., the alternative "if c: t else: f" (without enclosing parens) is NOT a 
>  viable alternative specifically because Python's parser evidently cannot 
>  disambiguate it from the statement form.  (I, for one, predict humans 
>  similarly will be confused.)  No matter how much people like it, it's not 
>  really an option so there's no reason to include it in the vote.

I thought Andrew Koenig showed a way to enable the Python parser
to cope with it.

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