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

Andrew Dalke adalke at mindspring.com
Mon Feb 10 01:05:52 EST 2003


Paul Moore:
> I'm not convinced that *any* form of simple vote counting will produce
> an answer. My feeling is that the overall consensus is 50-50. The only
> way a vote is going to give a clear result is if a significant number
> of people on one or the other side of the fence fail to vote (either
> through apathy, or through killfiling the whole discussion and missing
> the call for votes).

To make it even worse, we suffer from sampling error.

People who read c.l.py enough to participate/vote on this is not
are not necessarily indicitive of the total population of Python
users.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com






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