1 > 0 == True -> False

[Thibault Langlois]

On Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:08:58 PM UTC, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <3dcdc95d-5e30-46d3-b558-afedf9723c7c at googlegroups.com>,
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>  Thibault Langlois <thibault.langlois at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > You are right. I should have given some context.
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> > I am looking at this from the perspective of the teacher that has to explain 
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> > idiosyncrasies of the language to inexperienced students.
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> > There are two aspects in this example. 
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> > 1. the equivalence of True/False with integers 1/0 which have pro and cons.
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> > 2. the chaining rules of operators. I agree that it may make sense in some 
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> > cases like x > y > z but when operators are mixed it leads to counter 
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> > intuitive cases as the one I pointed out.
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> > The recommendations to student are 1) do not assume True == 1 and do not use 
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> > operator chaining.
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> Better than that, do what I do.
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> 1) Assume that you don't have the full operator precedence table 
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> memorized and just parenthesize everything.
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> 2) In cases where the expression is so simple, you couldn't possibly be 
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> wrong, see rule #1.

Agreed !