Feature suggestion -- return if true
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Apr 12 19:48:31 EDT 2011
Westley MartÃnez wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 16:06 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> --> def func():
>> --> var1 = something()
>> --> var2 = something_else('this')
>> --> return? var1.hobgle(var2)
>> --> var3 = last_resort(var1)
>> --> return var3.wiglat(var2)
>
> The question mark makes the programmer look like he wasn't sure of what
> he was doing at the time. "Hmm, should I return this object or not?"
>
Yeah, I'm definitely -1 on the ?, as well as -1 on the idea. All other
major flow control uses indentation, and this does not.
~Ethan~
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