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

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Saturday 08 February 2003 02:32 am, Andrew Koenig wrote:
> Carlos> I don't think that the code above is much clearer than the
> Carlos> one-liner with the ternary operator.
>
> My experience is that when people say "x is much clearer than y",
> what they are really saying is often "x is more familiar than y".

I fully agree with you - in fact, I think that most people that reacted today 
(tonight?) against the PEP are just reacting because the new syntax is not 
familiar to them, and the step-by-step evaluation is.

BTW, my background is Pascal, not C/C++; I'm not familiar with ternary 
operator either, but I still think that it is a rather succint way to express 
some constructs.


Carlos Ribeiro
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