Vote on PEP 308: Ternary Operator

Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Sun Mar 2 16:37:22 EST 2003


Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote:
> [Martijn Faassen]
>> ...
>> Should I really need to figure out which of the options I
>> dislike *least* and then give examples of them? And then reject them?
>> Why do I need to put in all that effort when I just don't want
>> any of them?
> 
> You could, e.g., vote for these:
> 
> E.  C ? x ! y
> F.  cond(C, x, y)
> O.  <if C then x else y>
> 
> IOW, vote for ones you know Guido wouldn't accept on his most feverish day.
> If everyone who wants no change did that, and there are a lot of them, Guido
> will conclude that the community is hopeless and give up in disgust <0.9
> wink>.

Heh. :)

Anyway, my basic point remains; I've seen a bunch of creative answers on
how to just vote against any such operator, but I think I've seen 4 different
ones, and I don't think one should need to be that persistent and creative
just in order to vote no.

Regards,

Martijn
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