Guido: When you invited resumed discussion, did you intend to proceed from where the revised PEP left off (with a few variations on the table), or to start over from point zero (with potentially anything and everything on the table). In particular, do we need to rehash the reasons for rejection of the backwards if-else proposal that a few seem to wish to resurrect?
Many people, perhaps most, including me, read exp1 if exp2 else exp3 # as cond if etrue else efalse # in direct analogy with cond ? etrue : efalse # from C I mentally read ?: in C as if/else! It took a few readings of the proposal to even realize that it the order flipped. There there is the obvious analogy with Python's if cond: etrue else: efalse with 'if' moved over to the first : position (and the : then removed) but with 'else' still between the alternatives (and the second : also removed). Then there are conditional functions, in various languages, iff(cond, etrue, efalse), which as far as I know always have the expressions in that order. Need I continue? Or is the dead still dead? Terry J. Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
