pep 308: why doing (almost) nothing suffices

[Edward K. Ream]

> > Thanks for pointing this out.  However, this does not change the fact
> > that Python already provides more than enough tools for this job.
>
> Of course it does.  No one has ever disputed that, as it's painfully
> obvious.  You can reformulate every conditional operator into a
> statement or a more convoluted expression (the and/or tricks with
> single-element lists or lambdas).
>
> The question is whether or not a conditional operator is warranted on
> its own merits, not whether its presence is required to have a
> Turing-complete language.

We could continue this debate for a while, but Steven Taschuck's posting is
the end of my not-quite-so-brilliant idea.  In short, doing nothing isn't as
good as I thought.

Edward
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