Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:37 AM, Florian Festi <ffe...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > Also we still need to settle to a final syntax for the operators > > [1]. Unfortunately there is no consensus among the other packaging > > formats what to use. Right now rpm accepts 3 different styles: > > * AND OR IF ELSE > > * & | ? : > > * && || ? : > > But the final release will only support on of them. As soon as the > > alpha stops eating babies that's a discussion we need to have. > > Is there a reason why we can't maintain all three kinds?
Languages that support many alternative syntax variants tend to get difficult to read. Different programmers will use different syntaxes and then have trouble reading each other's code. It's a lot of pain for very little gain. Björn Persson
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