On 2010年09月20日, Antoon Pardon <Antoon.Pardon at rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > Not necessarily. Some of us have the impression that Guido deliberatly > chose an ugly format for the ternary operator. Guido has alwasys been > against a ternary operator but the requests kept coming. So eventually > he introduced one. But the impression is that he chose an ugly format > in the hope of discouraging people to use it. If true, that is an *awesome* etymology for a hunk of a programming language. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam at seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions.