Loop-and-a-half (Re: Curious assignment behaviour)
Tim Peters
tim at zope.com
Fri Oct 12 19:01:38 EDT 2001
[Michael Chermside, on a conditional expression]
> ...
> As before, if anyone else feels strongly that they'd like to contribute
> (other than the excellent comments several folks already made), they
> should email me.
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.
> hoping-that-less-speed-and-more-thinking-leads-to-a-better-design-
> ly yours,
less-thinking-will-get-there-faster<wink>-ly y'rs - tim
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