if <assignment>:

[Dave Brueck]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 maney at pobox.com wrote:

> Dave Brueck <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote:
> > IMO the desire for if-assignment in C is driven in part by a desire
> > to fit more on the screen; Python code is more vertically compact so
> > I don't miss that feature as much.
> 
> On the contrary, the only time the lack of (explicit) assignment in
> expression has bothered me the issue was *horizontal* space.

Can you give an example please?

>  It also sounds as though you could be confusing a desire for concise
> expression with a much sillier objective - at least it seems so entirely
> silly to me that I can't really take it seriously.  Of course it's much
> easier to defeat a silly, contrived argument.  :-/

Sorry, I have no idea what this means.

-Dave