Re: Conditional expressions in Python 2.5

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

In message <5C22D28B-2145-4650-ABE9-3E933BAB3070@dnainternet.net>
you wrote:


> 
> "Guido van Rossum eventually chose a surprising syntax:
> 
> x = true_value if condition else false_value"
> 
> 
> I am _NOT_ suggesting Lua to do the same.  But bringing this up,  
> since it does seem relevant.  And weird. ;)

See J.W.Backus "The algebra of functional programs; ... "
LNCS 107 pp 1-43 (1981) for the advantages of this syntax.
There was an article in Byte magazine around the same time,
where the same point was made.

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