why () is () and [] is [] work in other way?
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 17:54:26 EDT 2012
On 4/21/12 10:15 PM, Bernd Nawothnig wrote:
> Your argument above was: it would violate first principles. And I still don't
> see that point. The comparison [] is [] maybe totally useless, of course, but
> which first principle would be violated by a compiler that lets that
> expression evaluate to True?
>
> Where can I read that the result *must* be False?
http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#list-displays
"A list display yields a new list object."
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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