[Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #1172711: Add 'long long' support to the array module.
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Sep 21 19:02:11 CEST 2011
Georg Brandl writes:
> I don't think so. "skip if not" reads pretty well for me, while I
> always have to think twice about "unless" -- may be a non-native-
> speaker thing.
FWIW, speaking as one native speaker, I'm not sure about that. "do ...
if not condition" doesn't bother me, whether I think of the condition
as an exception or as the normal state of affairs. I find "do ...
unless condition" to be quite awkward if the condition is a normal state.
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