PEP-308 a "simplicity-first" alternative

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

holger krekel wrote:

> Sorry, peter, but this sounds rather formal.  Do you really think 
> it's that great a "feature" that you have to switch to another idiom 
> if your ternary becomes binary?


When we're talking about a conditional expression rather than a
conditional statement, it's never truly binary. The expression
always has *some* value. I tend to agree that both alternatives
should always be made explicit.

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