skaller wrote:
> Dang it Erick and I are Pythonistas .. and we can't resist 
> copying Python ideas :)
>
> I'm thinking of:
>
> val x = x / y unless y == 0 whence 0;
>
> This is similar to Python 2.5:
>
> x = x / y if y != 0 else 0
>
> except the polarity is reversed. 'whence' is a mouthful,
> but the correct English is actually
>
> val x = x / y unless y == 0 in which case 0;
>
>   
How about

x = x / y unless y == 0 then 0;

or

x = x / y except if y == 0 then 0;

I can't help thinking that people will rebel against a language feature
which uses the term "whence"!

-- James "Painting the Bicycle Shed" Dennett



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