[Python-Dev] conditional expressions? (original) (raw)

Paul Svensson paul-python@svensson.org
Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:04:59 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'd be happy to discuss this more. I'm not happy with responses like "is this a bad joke?". I don't understand how this could be an argument in the arsenal of the anti-Python league.

I'm sorry if it hit a bad nerve, but I did skip this whole thread on c.l.py, thinking that this could surely not be seriously meant, so I guess don't have the understanding of the motivation behind the proposal that I could have had.

I know there's been a long time request for this feature, supposedly from people coming to Python from C, but what's the real reason for adding it now, without even a PEP ? Does it really add enough to the language to justify the bloat ?

/Paul