Loop-and-a-half (Re: Curious assignment behaviour)
John Roth
johnroth at ameritech.net
Sat Oct 13 00:07:55 EDT 2001
"Tim Peters" <tim at zope.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1002927732.24673.python-list at python.org...
> [Michael Chermside, on a conditional expression]
> > ...
> If people sign off on taking "then" as a new keyword, I think the chances
> are good that we could get
>
> x = if e1 then e2 else e3
>
> into 2.2b1. That's the only obvious spelling, hence the only truly
Pythonic
> way to spell it. Other languages spelling it that way range from Algol-60
> (Guido's first intense language affair) to Haskell.
I've got no problem with it. I don't think I've ever named a variable
'then' in my life. Even in assembler.
John Roth
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