overloading logical not, and, or

[C. Laurence Gonsalves]

On 29 Jan 2002 16:49:29 -0500, Kragen Sitaker <kragen at pobox.com> wrote:
> clgonsal at kami.com (C. Laurence Gonsalves) writes:
> > In addition, the 'and' and 'or' operators do "short circuiting". ie:
...
> > operators; they also implement control flow.  There isn't an immediately
> > obvious way that could be simulated with __and__ and __or__ methods.
> 
> There is to me, but that's because I've been programming more Scheme
> than is good for me.
>     a and b() 
> becomes
>     a.__and__(lambda: b())

I clearly haven't been doing nearly enough Scheme programming lately...
:-)

> But I still don't think it's a good idea!

Agreed.

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  C. Laurence Gonsalves
  clgonsal at kami.com