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

[Tim Peters]

[Andrew Koenig]
> ...
> For that matter, in the first round of the public-comment period for
> the C++ standard, we received a comment from one country that they
> would not approve the standard as long as it allowed for multiple ways
> of achieving the same affect, and to that end this country insisted
> that we remove the ++ and -- operators from the language, as we could
> achieve the same effect by adding or subtracting 1.

Damn.  Is *that* why we're going to war with Iraq?  I suppose it's reason
enough.

++-or-die-ly y'rs  - tim