@ Ulrich : Tx
@ Rebert : Appreciate your interpretation.
It made me think about ternary operation . Say
>>> (a > b) and x or y
Are all ternary operations prone to ...( in your words )
> It exploits short-circuit evaluation
>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation ). This is
>stunt coding / code golf; no one should actually write factorial
like
>that.