[Python-Dev] conditional expressions?

[Walter D�rwald]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Even after reading Daniel's passionate plea, if(cond,expr,expr) looks
> ugly to me.  It also doesn't solve the parsing ambiguity problem -- it
> still can't be allowed in an expression that starts a line because the
> parser doesn't know whether it's an if expression or an if statement
> without many tokens of lookahead.


This can be solved by simply choosing a different name:
     iif(cond, expr, expr)
     when(cond, expr, expr)
     cond(cond, expr, expr)
     check(cond, expr, expr)
     ...

> So, -1 for if(cond,expr,expr).


Bye,
    Walter D�rwald