a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

[Erik Max Francis]

Ed Avis wrote:

> Oh.  I thought someone said on this newsgroup only a few days ago that
> they did not, when I mentioned that
> 
>     cond and x or y
> 
> is a well-known substitute for a conditional operator like C's
> (cond ? x : y) or Haskell's (if cond then x else y).  Someone said
> that it wouldn't work, because x and y would be evaluated in either
> case.

No, the problem with it is that it won't work if x is false.  Think
about it.

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