> That leaves error reduction and clarity as the main motivations for > changing 'and' and 'or' to act like '&&' and '||' and for introducing a > conditional operator to handle everyone's favorite use cases.
I predict that people who use "and" and "or" correctly today will start confusing "&&" with "&" and "||" with "|", which in many instances will pass silently. In fact, I'll wager that lots of people who are familiar with boolean and/or will have never used bitwise and/or. Skip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com