[Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:02:20 +0200, Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
wrote:

>>>>>> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> (PR) wrote:
>
[...]
>
>>PR> Yeah, "if C then A else B" is a ancient tradition stretching from
>>PR> Algol-60 to OCAML, and who knows what all else in between.  I'm not
>>PR> sure what Guido saw in the "A if C else B" syntax but it's not a big deal.
>
>I suspect it is because "if C then A else B" gives problems in the parser
>because it would have difficulty to distinguish this in time from the if
>statement. This is because the parser doesn't use a very strong formalism. 

So lose the "if."

   R = C then A else B

I don't think python uses the question mark for anything.  Throw that
in, if it makes parsing easier:

   R = C ? then A else B

Regards,

                               -=Dave
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