A library approach to the ternary operator

[Lenard Lindstrom]

"David Abrahams" <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote in message
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>...
>       from ternary import *
>       select(condition and [true_result] or [false_result])
>...
My choice would be:

# ternary module
def select(test, fn_iftrue, fn_iffalse):
    if test:
        return fn_iftrue()
    return fn_iffalse()

then:

from ternary import *
x = select(condition, lambda:true_result, lambda:false_result)

Maybe its my lisp background, but using unevaluated expressions as function
arguments seems a natural approach to implementing short-circuited behavior.

Lenard Lindstrom
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