A little disappointed so far
OKB (not okblacke)
BrenBarn at aol.com
Mon May 19 15:52:56 EDT 2003
Graham Nicholls wrote:
> What does '||' mean? Its a well known
> OR statement. If you know the language, you wouldn't need to ask.
> If you don't, then don't touch my programs. I would say the same
> if I were coding in any language, no matter how readable. People
> deprecate the ternary operator in c because of this, but sorry, if
> you don;t know c, what are you doing reading my programs?
One of the advantages I've found in Python is that often I DON'T
need to "already know" what a feature is in order to understand what it
does. Indeed, the very first day I looked at Python code I could
understand basically what it all meant even though I didn't know the
language at all.
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--OKB (not okblacke)
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is
no path, and leave a trail."
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