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

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:06:40 +1300 (NZDT)

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>:

It seems downright weird to me that the syntactic baggage necessary to write a conditional expression is greater the the baggage necessary to write an if statement (new "then" keyword, parens required for disambiguation).

Has the "x if c else y" idea been totally rejected? It doesn't require a new keyword, or parentheses to disambiguate from an if statement.

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