PEP 308: A PEP Writer's Experience - PRO
Andrew Koenig
ark at research.att.com
Sun Feb 9 21:39:22 EST 2003
Tim> The problem with the example is that it's already easily
Tim> expressed safely by the and/or idiom,
Tim> print "Processing", filename == "-" and "<stdin>" or filename
But it's safe only by coincidence. In particular, if you change
"<stdin>" to "", it breaks.
To me, the apparently widespread use of an idiom that works only
because the middle value happens to be nonempty is strong evidence
that we should have a more robust and universal way of expressing
this particular idea.
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Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark
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