For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

Donn Cave donn at drizzle.com
Sat Feb 8 16:41:29 EST 2003


Quoth Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it>:
| Andrew Koenig wrote:
|    ...
| > the C++ standard, we received a comment from one country that they
| > would not approve the standard as long as it allowed for multiple ways
| > of achieving the same affect, and to that end this country insisted
|
| Heh -- my favourite retort to this kind of extremism, when I hear it
| applied to Python, is to feign agreement and then ask whether they'd
| prefer Python to forbid "x+1", or "1+x"...;-).

Forbid 1+x, thanks.

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com




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