On 2008-10-10 13:21, "Paul Makepeace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > P Much cleaner than the old and-or trick. for the non-pythoners: (condition and [iftrue] or [iffalse])[0] Explanation (quickly googled) here: http://diveintopython.org/power_of_introspection/and_or.html Did you catch Guido's reasoning for not adding true lambdas a while back? They're about the only thing the python community really wanted out of python3k and there are some very disappointed python lovers out there... --James
