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

[Georg Mischler]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> from_deja at alandaniels.com (Alan Daniels) writes:
>> If use of the colon character is overloaded, how about just using the
>> "else" keyword instead? That's what the colon in C's ternary operator
>> essentially means anyway. So, we'd have something like:
>> 
>>   <condition> ? <expression1> else <expression2>
>> 
>> A small compromise between the C-syntax and a more Pythonish syntax.
>> I would find something like
>> 
>>   x = (y < 5) ? "Yep" else "Nope"
> 
> I like this.


At first I thought "eeek!", but five seconds later it already
started to look familiar and intuitive.


-schorsch

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