PEP-able? Expressional conditions

[Terry Hancock]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 02:44 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> writes:
> > def ternary(condition, true_result, false_result):
> > 	if condition:
> > 		return true_result
> > 	else:
> > 		return false_result
> > 
> > Almost as good, and you don't have to talk curmudgeons into providing
> > it for you.
> 
> Not the same at all.  It evaluates both the true and false results,
> which may have side effects.

If you are depending on that kind of nit-picking behavior,
you have a serious design flaw, a bug waiting to bite you,
and code which shouldn't have been embedded in an expression
in the first place.


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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
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