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

[James J. Besemer]

holger krekel wrote:
> 
> would leave the parser having to look ahead of what this means.

The parser ALREADY looks ahead to do it's job.  That's the whole point of a 
parser.  It's not any kind of hardship.

The only technical problem is if a proposed construct is ambiguous in the 
sense that the parser simply cannot resolve it.  In which case the construct 
cannot be implemented.

Many of the proposals have been rejected because they seem ambiguous in a 
subjective sense -- a higher, non-technical, non-objective standard.

--jb



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