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.

-- 
--OKB (not okblacke)
"Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is
no path, and leave a trail."
	--author unknown




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