if the else short form

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand
Tue Oct 5 01:54:42 EDT 2010


In message <877hi44w53.fsf at xemacs.org>, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> BTW adding "==True" to a boolean value is redundant and can even break
> for logically true values that don't compare equal to True (such as the
> number 10 or the string "foo").

I wonder if there’s a name for this sort of thing: “boolnoob”, perhaps. Or 
“UUOBC” (“Useless Use Of Boolean Comparison”).



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