Python paradigms

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <3H4I4.709$4w1.17557 at typhoon.nyroc.rr.com>,
Darrell <darrell at dorb.com> wrote:
>> x = (a != NULL ? a[i]->weeble : 0) + (b != NULL ? b[i]->wombat : 0)
>
>x=0
>if a != NULL:
>    x=a[i].weeble
>
>if b != NULL:
>    x=x+b[i].wombat
>
>Isn't this more clear?
>In fact isn't not much if any longer than the "C" version when you count the
>parens used.

No.  Firstly, it relies on an artifact of my example (i.e. that it is
in an assignment, rather than a test condition or function call) and,
secondly, the more lines that code takes the harder it is to see the
function in its entirety.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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