PEP 308: ternary operator

[Terry Reedy]

"Dan Bishop" <danb_83 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Also, have you ever noticed that all selection functions in other
> languages (or spreadsheets, or CAS's) use the same order?
>
> Derive: IF(<cond>, <a>, <b>)
> Excel: IF(<cond>, <a>, <b>)
> Lisp: (cond (<cond> <a>) (t <b>))
> TI-89 BASIC: when(<cond>, <a>, <b>)
> VB: iif(<cond>, <a>, <b>)

(No, years of Python have dimmed memory of such details for other
languages.)

>The a-cond-b order is familiar to no one.

Good point.  I don't think Python should gratuitously introduce a new
order.

Terry J. Reedy