[Python-ideas] list…pushed, or something

[Shane Green]

Always makes me think of my favorite C snippet: 

if (attack = true) {
    launch_nukes(); 
}

Well, I have to admit that I'm drawing a blank on all the great use cases I had in mind, and it didn't seem to light any particular fires with the list, so I'd say this isn't a compelling enough story to take anymore time with at the moment.  If a good–and not obscure–example comes to mind, I'll send it out, otherwise, thanks for the feedback!




Shane Green 
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On Mar 27, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Bruce Leban <bruce at leapyear.org> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Shane Green <shane at umbrellacode.com> wrote:
> That's clever: even works for zero because it's returned by or as second false.  Cool.  So I suppose I have to come up with more examples now ;-)  
> 
> Actually, on that point, I actually think the seen.added(value)  (with a better name) is quite a bit cleaner than the one using "or".   Clever as it is, I think someone learning the language would flinch when they saw that… :-)
> 
> Yes, I suppose it's a bit obscure but you're only going to use it in a case where you value brevity over clarity, right?
>  
> The C comma operator which always returns the second value, not depending that the first value is false. You can write this in Python as:
> 
>     (foo, bar)[1]
> 
> or is there some cleaner way to write that?
> 
>     #define comma  and False or
>     :-)
>  
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