[Python-Dev] vox populii illiterati

Samuele Pedroni pedronis@bluewin.ch
Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:42:55 +0100


From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org>
> Still, I'm beginning to be more and more against any form of
> if-then-else; I'm not yet sure why that is, but I think that I don't
> see enough places where it's needed, and I find code using it often
> harder to read.  Part of that is my general problem with decyphering
> expressions with control flow -- my brain is wired to deal with
> control flow at the statement level very efficiently, but not at the
> expression level.

If the vote pass, you can always add it but declare that it is very very very
bad style <wink>.