1 PEP 308: Conditional Expressions

1 PEP 308: Conditional Expressions:  x = true_value if condition else false_value"



I am vindicated!!!!



Or at least I am following in Guido's footsteps without noticing it.



More and more, I have been using  R := A if Cond else C

in pseudocode, etc., because it reads better than

R:= if Cond then A else B



Python does the same.





I must admit, however, that I wish that both versions were available - it depends on whether you want to emphasize the condition of the value.



For multiway if expressions



R := if C1 then V1 elsif C2 then V2 elsif ... else Ve



looks better than



R := V1 if C1 elsif C2 then V2 elsif ... else Ve



although I think that both have value, again, depending on whether you want to emphasize the condition or the value.



Also, often the conditions are error conditions, and the primary condition is the negation of all the rare error conditions:

R := if rareC1 then rareC2 

        elsif rareC2 then rareV2 

        elsif ... 

        else Most_Common_V_Else

This is the equivalent of putting the default case at the top of a switch statement.

Can we come up with a syntax that allows this?

R := Most_Common_V_Else

        if rareC1 then rareC2 

        elsif rareC2 then rareV2 

        elsif ... 

        else /*no value?*/

R := Most_Common_V_Else

        if none of the following (

           if rareC1 then rareC2 

           elsif rareC2 then rareV2 

           elsif ... 

           /* bit no else */

        )

 

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