[Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Fri Oct 7 17:14:36 EDT 2005


On Friday 07 October 2005 10:52 am, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Terry Hancock wrote:
> > GvR's syntax has the advantage of making grammatical sense in English (i.e.
> > reading it as written pretty much makes sense).
> 
> as a native Python speaker, I find that argument being remarkably weak.  things
> I write in Python should make sense in Python, not in some other language.

Well, since this is adopted as the Python grammar, then I guess it will make
sense in Python too, won't it?  But English grammar is already strongly
represented in Python's choices, so it's entirely consistent to do
it here, too (otherwise, explain "not in").


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