Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez
<rgarciasuarez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/10 Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com>:
>> Back to programming languages(!)
>>
>> Just as a different perspective, here is Python growing a ternary operator,
>> i.e. how to get the same behavior as the C-like C ? A : B. There was
>> considerable debate about this, with Guido eventually Making a Decision.
>> What's interesting is that python gets ?: without any additional keywords,
>> or... punctuation: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0308/
>>
>> There's no moral judgment here, just thought it was an interesting aside
>> from lies & nazism.
>
> But isn't aesthetics the ultimate moral judgment for the centuries to come ?
>
> And honestly, putting the condition in the middle just makes me want
> to poke my eyes out with a snail fork.
>

Hmm - it looks that there is some typo in that PEP, because later it
is stated has the form of:

(if <condition>: <expression1> else: <expression2>)

So the condition is at the beginning.


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Zbigniew Lukasiak
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