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Re:PEP 308 and why I still hate Python by userbinator on Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:57PM (#13835967)
Python is an imperative language.

...as are many others with the conditional operator's operands in the normal (condition, true-case, false-case) order:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F:

I think being "functional" or otherwise has nothing to do with it. Even in imperative languages you must use expressions, and it is there that the conditional operator is most useful.

Re:PEP 308 and why I still hate Python by pjvandehaar on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:28PM (#13864198)
Re:PEP 308 and why I still hate Python by jolux on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:13PM (#13836027)
Yeah, this has nothing to do with FP. No idea what the parent was going for...