In article <4cc701e7$0$1606$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > >Python isn't a functional language. It has some minimal functional >capabilities, and there's a lobby that would like more. So far, that's >mostly been resisted. Attempts to allow multiline lambdas have been >averted. The weird "functional if" syntax additions were a cave-in to >the functional crowd, and may have been a mistake.
Did you actually read the PEP explanation for *why* Guido decided to add conditional expressions? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Look, it's your affair if you want to play with five people, but don't go calling it doubles." --John Cleese anticipates Usenet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
