[Greg Ewing] > 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. I was its only fan within PythonLabs, and I was lukewarm. The trick is to view "if c else" as a new short-circuiting infix binary operator (for each c), and then it makes great-- even elegant --sense. But it's apparently a major strain to see it that way. It had at least one sworn mortal enemy, and I think Fred Drake was so upset at the idea that he couldn't speak. bad-sign-in-a-wordsmith<wink>-ly y'rs - tim
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