I am new to python. I have a few questions coming from an armature!

Jussi Piitulainen jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi
Thu Aug 18 13:29:42 EDT 2016


MRAB writes:

> On 2016-08-18 10:46, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>> Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>>
>>> Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>>>
>>>> That looks a bit funny if the "keyword" does not look like a word,
>>>> but then programming languages do look funny, so why not:
>>>>
>>>>    (c ? t : e)  # ?-expression
>>>>
>>>>    (c -> t, e)  # ->-expression
>>>
>>> That ship has already sailed.
>>
>> Sorry, what?
>>
> You've missed the bus.
>
> The train has left the station.
>
> In other words, you're too late. :-)

Yes, I understood _that_. I just don't understand how it can be too late
to observe that "?-expression" looks a bit funny but not so funny that
it couldn't be used to refer to such expressions.

But never mind, even I have more interesting issues to think about :)



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