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

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

>This is one of the things that makes perl such a disaster of a language.  
>I've use a subset of perl idioms in my writing, but as often as not, 
>when I'm at a total loss when I read somebody else's code because they 
>use a different set of idioms.  They might as well be writing in a 
>different language.

I really don't have much sympathy for that argument. If you want to
understand a language, you will need to know it.

You can't expect to pick up a few basic terms and hope to understand
everything. 

You'd be criticising novellists next for using words that aren't in
your vocabulary or refusing to learn French because people will use
words you haven't learned yet.

Will people grow up about this? How hard is it to understand a bit of
computer code?
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Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems Ltd