[Python-ideas] if condition: break idiom
Arnaud Delobelle
arnodel at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 21 21:28:00 CEST 2008
On 21 Sep 2008, at 19:36, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Josiah Carlson wrote:
>>
>>>> break if condition else continue
>>>> continue if condition else break
>>>>
>>> No that would be silly.
>> Why? It follows directly from conditional expressions
>
> In my view, backwards conditional expressions were Guido's worst
> mistake. This proposal and comments like the above partly
> illustrate why I think so.
>
I don't know what was the motivation for including conditional
expression in the language, but:
condition and x or y
is better replaced with:
x if condition else y
So from a pragmatic point of view, if-expressions work as some kind of
"vaccine" against the above.
--
Arnaud
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