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

[Jack Diederich]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:46:55PM +0100, holger krekel wrote:
> What about a missing else clause? e.g. 
> 
>         <expression> if <condition>

if (<condition>): <expression>

is already legal so I'm -1 for yet another way to do it

> Allowing it could be nice for stuff like 
>     result = obj(...) if callable(obj)

-1 as above

> Note though, that this proposal obfuscates control "flow"  
> (which guido already knows, of course).  You can't read it 
> neither from "left to right" nor from "right to left".  

a good reason for -1, another would be that perl has both
ways of doing it ;)

if-theres-only-one-way-to-do-it-I-can-read-your-code-ly

-jackdied