On Dec 21, 2019, at 08:41, Soni L. <fakedme+py@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to see the ability to do:
if x: 1 and if y: 2 or if z: 3
The truth table for these would be:
x | y | z | result 0 | _ | 0 | (none) 0 | _ | 1 | 3 1 | 0 | _ | 1,3 1 | 1 | _ | 1,2,3
and each statement is evaluated once, when encountered. (as such, y and z may not be evaluated at all, if their evaluation is not necessary to determine the outcome.)
So this is equivalent to: if x: if y: 1, 2, 3 else: 1, 3 elif z: 3 I can see how the former saves me having to repeat the 3 three times. But the cost is being less obvious about when exactly I get a 3 so I’m forced to work it through step by step—including the confusion about the 1,0,0 case, which, as you mentioned, is only clear if you imagine putting an else at the end (although maybe you’d get used to that once you’d read through enough of these?). It’s even less obvious if you do throw in an elif, or just add an and if to the end (so now the condition to get there is not “x and y or z and w” but, I think, “((x and y) or z) and w”? Does that advantage outweigh the disadvantage? Certainly not for this example. But that’s probably because even the rewritten example is meaningless and useless. Maybe it would be different with a realistic use case, but I can’t imagine what that would be. Surely you must have some case where you really wanted this, that motivated you to propose it?