Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Personally, I'd love a language feature that let you create a function
> that didn't evaluate arguments until they were actually used - lazy
> evaluation. That lets you write the C ?: operator as a function, for
> a start.
>
> Hmmm. No, iterators can't be used to fake it. Oh well.
You can fake it with lambda, but the syntax is contorted.
a = condition ? expr1 : expr2;
becomes
a = ((lambda: expr2, lambda: expr1)[bool(condition)])()
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