>>>>> Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PR) wrote:
>PR> Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> For a conditional, syntax must be found, and the tradition of Python >>> design is not to use punctuation for something that can be solved with >>> keywords. >PR> Yeah, "if C then A else B" is a ancient tradition stretching from >PR> Algol-60 to OCAML, and who knows what all else in between. I'm not >PR> sure what Guido saw in the "A if C else B" syntax but it's not a big deal. I suspect it is because "if C then A else B" gives problems in the parser because it would have difficulty to distinguish this in time from the if statement. This is because the parser doesn't use a very strong formalism. I think language design should prevail over parsing problems, but in this case it is probably a pragmatic argument that wins. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
