PEP-308 a "simplicity-first" alternative

[Erik Max Francis]

Bengt Richter wrote:

> Since the operators do exactly what they were designed to do, IMO
> "broken"
> is misleading. The _idiom_ has a pitfall which is well known to some,
> but
> perhaps not to most.

I never said that the operators were broken, I said the idiom was. 
Nitpicking whether it should be called _broken_ or a _pitfall_ or
_dangerous_ seems to be dodging around the point -- it doesn't work,
it's in use as an alternative to the conditional operator, and that's a
problem.

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