Proposed PEP for a Conditional Expression
Markus Schaber
markus at schabi.de
Mon Sep 17 09:06:29 EDT 2001
Hi,
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> schrub:
>
> Markus> What about "(<cond>: return <expr> [else return <expr])"
>
> All you're saving is a single word and a colon:
>
> if <cond>: return <expr>
> else: return <expr>
But my version doesn't overload the if keyword, the second proposal
doesn't overload the if and return keywords.
And with requiring the brackets, it should be easier for machine and
human parsers to distinguish between the if: else: statements and the
conditional expression.
markus
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