a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

[Ed Avis]

Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com> writes:

>>    cond and x or y

>It looks like you somehow managed to overlook the most vigorous
>discussion ever to grace this newsgroup.

Hmm, most likely it was before my time, or I just ignored it.  Anyway
this above conditional was just a side topic in some larger thread,
and I will now do my best to resist venturing further down that side
road.  Thanks for the tip,

-- 
Ed Avis <ed at membled.com>