Paul Svensson <paul-python@svensson.org>: > 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 ? I actually implemented this last year. The less cumbersome syntax I suggest is: a ? b ! c -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> Everything you know is wrong. But some of it is a useful first approximation.
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