On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 6:28:06 AM UTC+12, Terry Reedy wrote: >> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0308/ > > What the *current* version removed from an earlier version is that there > was a clear community consensus against the condition-in-the-middle > syntax Guido proposed and for some version of "if condition then > True-alternative else False-alternative". Where consensus was lacking > was which of multiple 'normal order' alternatives to choose. Part of > the problem was a lack of knowledge of which alternative Guido might > accept. In any case, a runoff vote among the top contenders was not > allowed.
Sounds like Conway’s Law strikes again: a flawed development process led to the creation of a flawed solution. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
