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PEP 308: Pep Update

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Thu Feb 27 05:45:06 EST 2003 
"Sheila King" <usenet at thinkspot.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:06:21 -0600, "Norman Petry" <npetry1 at canada.com>
> wrote
[...]
> >
> > My vote on PEP 308 (if anyone cares) is:
> >
> >   +1 : x if C else y
> >    0 : NO TERNARY
> > -0.5 : (if C: x else: y)
> >   -1 : ALL OTHER PROPOSALS
> >
> > Please reinstate "x if C else y" as the recommended syntax for PEP-308.
>
>
> I really hate to do "me too" types of posts. However, as some people seem
> to be keeping track of preferences and so forth by the posts on this topic
> to the newsgroup, I feel that I had better agree "out loud" when I agree.
>
> Excellent, excellent, well written post. Wish I had written it.
>

Me too :-)

Except that I don't want this new-fangled feature in the language at all, so
I've been staying quiet. Someone has to organize the conferences.

and-anyway-i'm-a-well-known-reactionari-ly y'rs  - steve
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