Voting for PEP 308 (was Re: For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression)

[Roy Smith]

Hans Nowak <wurmy at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hmm, what if bools grew an if() method?  We could then write:
> 
>    z = (x == y).if(whentrue, whenfalse)
> 
> This strikes me as much more elegant than the other proposals.
> 
> (ducking for cover, etc :-)

A fascinating idea.  Unfortunately, it doesn't achieve the short-circuit 
behavior which many people feel is an essential aspect of the ternary 
expression.