For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

[Jp Calderone]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:48:02AM -0200, cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br wrote:
> [snip - current idioms]
>
> Oh well. I just gave up discussing short-circuiting evaluation and there
> we go again. The two blocks of code are not equivalent; change z for an
> expression with some side effect (for example, a function call), and then
> the results will be completely different.

  Sorry, I must have missed that part of the thread :)  I'm a big fan of
short-circuit, just not a big fan of adding a ternary operator.  If you need
it that badly, write a function (No, it isn't current impossible, it's just
odd-looking).

  Jp

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