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PEP 308: Alternative conditional operator forms

Laura Creighton lac at strakt.com
Tue Feb 11 01:26:09 EST 2003 
> >>>I have no objection to "straw man" votes, so long as they do not end
> >>>the debate.
> >> 
> >> I'm not familiar with that term in this context.  Did you mean "straw
> >> poll"?
> >
> >Yes.
> >
> > From my experience many, many years ago on the ANSI X3J11 standards 
> >committee, when discussing new features, the leaders called for non-binding 
> >"straw votes" frequently to help move the discussion forward.  It's a way to
>  
> >quickly table identifiable dead-ends and help pare down otherwise impossible
>  
> >lists of alternatives.
> 
> What I'd be curious about at this point is how everyone breaks down
> between:
> 
> 1) I don't want conditional expressions added to python with any 
>    syntax
> 2) I don't necessarily object to conditional expressions, but I don't
>    like and wouldn't support any syntax proposed so far
> 3) I'm in support of PEP 308 as written, but I wouldn't support any of
>    the other proposed syntaxes
> 4) I'd support PEP 308 as written, and I prefer it to any of the
>    proposed alternatives, but I could support some of the alternatives
>    as well
> 5) I would prefer one of the proposed alternate syntaxes to the
>    original PEP, but if it comes down to just yes/no on PEP 308, I
>    would vote yes
> 6) I would support one or more of the proposed alternate syntaxes, but
>    not PEP 308 as written
> 
> This can be looked at in a few interesting ways:
> 
> 1-2:  don't want anything suggested so far
> 3-4:  want PEP 308 as written
> 5-6:  want one of the alternate proposals
> 
> 1-2,6:  would vote no on PEP 308 as written
> 3-5:    would vote yes on PEP 308 as written
> 
> 1-3:  wouldn't support any of the alternate syntaxes
> 4-6:  would support at least one alternate syntax
> 
> However, starting a new poll whenever someone is curious is a good way
> to drown out any useful information and dilute the chance of running
> the polls that would really be useful.  But if others think this would
> be a useful poll, go ahead and run it and I'd love to see the results.
> 
> -Dave
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

you need to add:

7) I don't care


Laura
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