[Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #1172711: Add 'long long' support to the array module.

[Michael Foord]

On 21/09/2011 18:02, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 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.

I'm not a big fan of skipUnless, but there you go. I find "skip if not" 
readable too and always have to "work out" what skipUnless means. It's 
probably just that "if" and "if not" are such Python idioms and "unless" 
isn't.

Michael

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