I found the original discussion about the ternary addition, FWIW: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056846.html.
I don't see myself participating in the discussion (maybe it's in a different thread), but I'm delighted to remember that the message Guido posted a couple hours earlier than that announcement was about a talk I gave back then. On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 5:23 PM David Mertz, Ph.D. <david.me...@gmail.com> wrote: > This ship has sailed and the ternary operator isn't going to change. > Seriously, let it go. > > I forget the PEP, but this was well discussed long ago when the ternary > was added. In general, Python prefers words to punctuation symbols for > most of its constructs. So the decision was consistent with that. I do > believe that such a choice is friendlier for people learning a first > programming language, since it resembles English prose. While I like the > C-style operator as well, I think the Python version does the right thing > by emphasizing the DEFAULT by putting it first, and leaving the predicate > and fallback until later in the expression (right for Pythonic code, not > right for other languages necessarily). > > Either way, the question is moot. > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:42 PM Dom Grigonis <dom.grigo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I am not very keen on long discussions on such matter as I do not think >> there is much to discuss: there is no technical complexity in it and it >> doesn’t really change or introduce anything new. It is only a matter of >> opinion & style/design preferences with respect to logical order and >> brevity of a statement. >> >> So I thought, if anyone can be bothered on such question and instead of >> writing 3-minute e-mail, would take few seconds to answer 3-question poll. >> >> https://q5yitzu62.supersurvey.com >> >> Would be interesting to see if my preference is an outlier or not really. >> >> >> Kind regards, >> D. Grigonis >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/NZVLR56BFMBJXE6GN2GWRXIG6ZVAAWZZ/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > > > -- > The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the > not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse > the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, > become abortifacients against new conceptions. > -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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