On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:24:53 -0000, Göktuğ Kayaalp <s...@gkayaalp.com>
wrote:
AFAIK, we do not have "postfix conditionals" in Python, i.e. a condition
appended to a statement, which determines whether the statement runs or
not:
py> for i in [False]:
... break if not i
The above piece of code is equivalent to this in Python:
py> for i in [False]:
... if not i
... break
I believe that the first example is superior to the second example when
the two is compared for readability and intuitiveness.
In my past life as a newcomer to Perl, I thought this too. Postfix
conditionals read more like English, so they would be easier to take in
and understand. As I wrote more code, I discovered that this didn't seem
to be the case; except in very simple cases, I had to mentally transpose
the conditional back to the start of the statement to properly comprehend
what was going on and what the results would be for my sample data.
It looks like a good idea, but I don't think it works that well in
practice.
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