On 28.09.2015 18:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 06:11:45PM +0200, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
That sums it all up for me as well, though I would rather use "else" instead of "or?" (see punctuation-heavy). `else` is ambiguous. Consider:
result = spam if eggs else cheese else aardvark
could be interpreted three ways:
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. Best, Sven