Terry Reedy wrote:
One of the ironies (or puzzles) of Guido's choice is that he once condemned Perl's 'value if cond' as wretched.
I don't think that's the same thing. Perl allows 'statement if cond' as an alternative way of writing "if (cond) statement'. Nobody has ever seriously considered allowing two ways to write if *statements* in Python. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list