For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

[David Eppstein]

In article <f9068f8e.0302081508.8615a97 at posting.google.com>,
 janto_d at hotmail.com (Janto Dreijer) wrote:

> I find it difficult to imagine a situation where the short-circuit
> behavior actually matters. Theoretically an ifelse function doesn't do
> the same thing, but practically it does: Whenever I've used ternary
> ops there weren't any side effects to evaluating both arguments.
> Neither any performance ones.
> 
> Can someone give me a real world example of its usefulness?

There have already been a couple of examples posted in this thread, 
where one side contains an array reference that could give an array out 
of bounds if the condition is not met.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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