PEP 308: ternary operator

[phil hunt]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:21:57 GMT, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
>phil hunt wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:10:55 GMT, Carl Banks
>>>I think it's kind of comical how serious everyone believes this is, as
>>>if the very future existence of Python hinged on whether the
>>>conditional operator is a ? b : c or a then b else c.
>> 
>> Well said.
>
>So why are *you* so serious about using the C syntax?

There are other syntaxes that I'd be happy with, e.g:

   result = (if c then a else b)

But I reject the argument "if it's C it's bad".

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