[Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions

[George Sakkis]

"Dave Hansen" <iddw at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:42:34 -0500, Terry Hancock
> <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
>
> >On Sunday 09 October 2005 07:50 am, phil hunt wrote:
> >> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:05:12 -0500, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> >> >GvR's syntax has the advantage of making grammatical sense in English (i.e.
> >> >reading it as written pretty much makes sense).
> >>
> >> I know, let's re-write Python to make it more like COBOL! That's
> >> bound to be a winner!
> >
> >Whereas the "natural order" of "condition affirmative negative" is natural
> >for what reason?  That it is so in C?
>
> And Basic, and Fortran, and Lisp, and just about any programming
> language you care to name, including python (if Condition: Affirmative
> else: Negative).

Block delimiters (curly braces, if/fi, begin/end, etc.) are also in just about any language but this
didn't stop python using indentation instead, so what's your point ? Conformity and backwards
compatibility should not be top priorities in language design; fortunately for python, they're not.

George