<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On May 21, 4:57 pm, "inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> one of the few things i miss from C is being able to use assignment in >> expressions. that's the only thing, really. >> also there's no switch/case, you have to use a dictionary of functions >> instead, although i rarely need that, usually i just use elif. > > One thing I hate from C is the assignment in expressions...Forcing > myself to write > 0 == Something > rather than > Something == 0
interesting trick, i've never thought of that/seen it although if Python implemented it I think it should default to giving warnings when you use = in an expression, that way you don't have to worry. > just to make sure I was mistakenly assigning values in statements is > annoying, it ruins the ease of reading. > > I kind of agree with the select:case, but I think a key issue is how > to implement it. Elif is reasonable for now. > > Diez, true I guess, but then we haven't seen what these expressions > are, and why there has to be three. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
