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[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2004-07-07, Peter Hansen schreef <peter at engcorp.com>:
> ellisjb at my-deja.com wrote:
>
>> Reading the voting results I don't see why this was rejected.  The way
>> I read it those in favor of some form of ternary operator seem to have
>> well over 50% of the vote.
>
> Answered at the top of the PEP, in the introduction:
>
> '''Following the discussion, a vote was held.  While there was an
> overall interest in having some form of if-then-else expressions, no one
> format was able to draw majority support.  Accordingly, the PEP was
> rejected due to the lack of an overwhelming majority for change.
> Also, a Python design principle has been to prefer the status quo
> whenever there are doubts about which path to take.'''

> Clear enough?

Not really.  The question I have is whether the majority would
prefer an if-then-else expression in an other format than
there preference over not having an if-then-else expression.

If so then rejecting this PEP was not due to the lack of
an overwhelming majority for change.

-- 
Antoon Pardon