On 05 February 2003, Christopher Blunck said:
> One of the great things I love about py is how much bang for your buck you
> get per line of code. I can do much more in 10 lines of py than I can do in
> Java. Being able to do something like this would really help me:
> bigger = a > b ? a : b
I won't claim to channel Guido, but C's ?: operator is ugly, obscure,
and weird. Just because it has been copied by Java and Perl does not
mean it is a good thing. The fact that Python does not ape C is a
*feature*.
Greg
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