anything new on the ternary operator?

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Mon Jul 7 13:31:29 EDT 2003


In article <mailman.1057595352.18354.python-list at python.org>, John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:
> 
>    Tim> There were many creative interpretations of the vote counts,
>    Tim> but none of them showed the consensus Guido said at the start
>    Tim> would be needed for adoption.
> 
> Perhaps there is a lesson for the next time a vote count comes around.
> Although there wasn't a consensus on the syntactical form of a ternary
> operator, there may be a consensus for the existence of one.  This
> suggests a runoff step is needed

Holy cow, didn't you notice the endless threads on voting
methods? There were two votes, both of which had various
"instant runoff" sort of features.

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