For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Tue Feb 11 02:04:11 EST 2003
Donn Cave wrote:
> It sure doesn't bode well for what we're likely to see if one of the
> proposals is accepted. It's like handing out free spray paint on the
> street corners, to improve the quality of vandalism.
While that's a quaint analogy, I simply don't buy it. How does giving
someone the proper syntax they're looking for -- instead of obscure and
incorrect one -- promote bad code? Any syntax can be abused.
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