On 28.09.2015 19:24, Andrew Barnert wrote:
On Sep 28, 2015, at 09:47, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:
result = (spam if eggs else cheese) else aardvark result = spam if (eggs else cheese) else aardvark result = spam if eggs else (cheese else aardvark)
Whichever precedence you pick, some people will get it wrong and it will silently do the wrong thing and lead to hard-to-diagnose bugs. Using "else" for this will be a bug-magnet.
I wouldn't make a mountain out of a molehill. Other existing operators have the same issue.
Which other keywords or symbols may be either a binary operator or part of a ternary operator depending on context?
It has nothing to do with either of it. I've seen young students struggling with the op precedence of AND and OR; and I've seen experienced coworkers rather adding superfluous pairs of parentheses just to make sure or because they still don't know better. Best, Sven