Overloading and? was <RE: Should I prefer an external database>
Andrew Dalke
adalke at mindspring.com
Wed Apr 23 12:58:18 EDT 2003
Steven Taschuk
> __and__ could be passed other as a callable which computes and
> returns the second operand. Then the standard __and__ could be
> def __and__(self, other):
> if bool(self):
> return self
> return other()
So a new idiom and new code (to generate a function from a set of
unevaluated code), just to allow overriding booleans? Seems
rather excessive to me.
Gets pretty complicated with code like
print value or sys._getframe().f_lineno
since the function introduces a new frame.
OTOH, this could lead to an easy 'if/else' expression function.
And generically speaking, adding code blocks like this leads
towards Smalltalk and Ruby.
Andrew
dalke at dalkescientific.com
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