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

[Aahz]

In article <7e9a4vo6htiu56vmt9ire7miigld9pr87v at 4ax.com>,
Dale Strickland-Clark  <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> wrote:
>Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>This is one of the things that makes perl such a disaster of a language.  
>>I've use a subset of perl idioms in my writing, but as often as not, 
>>when I'm at a total loss when I read somebody else's code because they 
>>use a different set of idioms.  They might as well be writing in a 
>>different language.
>
>I really don't have much sympathy for that argument. If you want to
>understand a language, you will need to know it.
>
>You can't expect to pick up a few basic terms and hope to understand
>everything. 
>
>Will people grow up about this? How hard is it to understand a bit of
>computer code?

If you're so dead set against Roy's argument, please explain to us why
you use Python instead of Perl.
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