I think a recap of past arguments is useful. Me-too votes are not. i will read everything and pick a syntax and that's it. We can do it in Python 2.5.
On 9/21/05, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
