Op 2005-10-10, Terry Hancock schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 09 October 2005 07:50 am, phil hunt wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:05:12 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >GvR's syntax has the advantage of making grammatical sense in English (i.e. >> >reading it as written pretty much makes sense). >> >> I know, let's re-write Python to make it more like COBOL! That's >> bound to be a winner! > > Whereas the "natural order" of "condition affirmative negative" is natural > for what reason? That it is so in C? > > I don't find that so compelling either, frankly. Why should it really > matter in the end? I've always found C's order (and punctuation) confusing, > I have to look it up practically everytime I use it or have to read it > (which correlates to it being used very rarely, with causality in both > directions). > > Given that situation, choosing a form which is easy to read is surely > an advantage, and, since it is the way that Python has handled logic > in the past, it makes sense to continue doing so.
Personnaly I would think some consistency between conditional expressions and conditional statements would have been a good thing. I haven't seen a discussion where the following kind of if statement was discussed. do: return a[0] if a[0] < a[1] else: return a[1[ > No doubt, ANY choice of ternary operator for Python will be > criticized, and no doubt, ANY choice would nevertheless be > usable. Agreed, I think having it is more important than what form it comes in. My preference has more to do with consistency with the statement. > OTOH, I think this choice is consistent with the rest of Python's > design. The general choice to use keyword operators for LOGIC > and symbolic operators for MATH is retained, and so long as we're > describing the logic in words, it makes sense for the wording > to sound natural. > > Consistency certainly does make it easier for me to remember. I think that a consistency within the language would have made more sense than consistency with someone's mother tongue. When I program I program in python or some other programming language. Not in english, dutch, french or some other natural language. But for me this is just style talk. I don't care that much for style, I'm more concerned with functionality and I'm glad this functionality will become available. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list