Why does list have no 'get' method?

[Steve Holden]

Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
>> Personally, between
>>
>> * foo if foo else bar
>> * foo or bar
>>
>> I prefer the second. Maybe it could be spelt
>>
>> * foo else bar ?
>>
> How about
> 
> val = foo rather than bar
> 
> If that is not clear and obvios, I don't know what is.  ;)
> 
Even clearer:

ASSIGN foo IF foo HAS A VALUE, OTHERWISE bar, TO val

Ahh, the joys of the COmmon Business Oriented Language.

regards
  Steve
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