Sam wrote: > Jaime Wyant writes: > >> On 9/30/05, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Reinhold Birkenfeld writes: >>> >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > after Guido's pronouncement yesterday, in one of the next versions of >>> > Python >>> > there will be a conditional expression with the following syntax: >>> > >>> > X if C else Y >>> > >>> > which is the same as today's >>> > >>> > (Y, X)[bool(C)] >>> >>> What's wrong with "C ? X:Y"? >>> >>> Aside from ":" being overloaded? >>> >> >> First thing that comes to my mind is that it is more C-ish (read >> cryptic) than pythonic (read elegant and understandable). > > And "foo if bar" is Perl-ish; yet, even Perl has the ? : operators.
Perl's "foo if bar" is very different to this one, you should know about this. For a conditional, syntax must be found, and the tradition of Python design is not to use punctuation for something that can be solved with keywords. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
