On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 09:27 am, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 8:44:01 PM UTC-4, Denis McMahon wrote: >> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 03:54:14 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> > If I did this thing, would people follow me down the street booing and >> > jeering and throwing things at me? >> >> Yes >> >> >>> x = func() >> >>> x >> >>> func() >> >>> print x == func() >> >>> assert x == func() >> >> Would you expect the last two calls to func() to return 999 or "Awesome"? >> Why? What is the material difference if any between interpreter (a) >> displaying the return value and (b) comparing the return value with >> another value. >> >> Debugging nightmare! > > I'll add my voice to the rising chorus condemning the very notion > of a function that behaves this way! > > Then, I'll give you an implementation (Python 2):
Excellent! *cough* I mean, well, that's interesting. Of course no sane developer would ever use such a thing. Thanks to everyone who tried to discourage me from using this. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
