PEP-308 a "simplicity-first" alternative

[ruud de rooij]

holger krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> writes:

>         x and y else z

as long as people are proposing alternatives, what about:

  c then x else y

or with required parentheses:
  (c then x else y)

it has the advantage that it doesn't overload existing keywords (like
the "if" statement or the "and" operator), except for the "else"
keyword which seems to be heavily used in many places in the language
anyway.

to me personally,
  print "affected %d row%s" % (rows, (rows==1 then "s" else ""))
doesn't look too bad.

if this has already been proposed and discarded, my apologies.

        - ruud
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