> Because the conditional *ends* in something that "pulls in" all
> following binary operators and their operands until it hits a ")",
> I find it safer not to let it accept an operator at the front.
To explain this perhaps a bit better, the 'else' keyword acts as the
right side of a low-priority binary operator with respect to the
expression that follows. It would be unpleasant if the 'if' keyword
acted as the left side of a *high*-priority operator to the expression
that preceeds it. Again, think of what this would mean:
(3 * if x then y else z + 4)
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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