the death of lecter

[Ben Wolfson]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:46:10 +0100, Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote:

>Erik Max Francis wrote:
>> 
>> Michal Wallace wrote:
>> 
>> >    * immediate if:
>> >          print 'x is', x > 0 ? 'positive' : 'negative'
>> >
>> >      # I still wish we had a ?: operator..
>> >      # It would be great for lambdas!
>> 
>> Yeah, an if-else operation compacted into an operator would be rather
>> convenient.
>
>I guess I would vote against this: after all, as Tim's Python philosophy
>says "readability counts", and IMHO, this is the singlemost unreadable
>construct in all of C.

On the other hand, when people try to include it in lambdas anyway, the
result isn't exactly clear:

 (A and (B,) or (C,))[0]

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