MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>: > On 2016-08-17 19:39, Random832 wrote: >> Why not just if(cond, trueval, falseval), a la Visual Basic? > > Well, it looks too much like a function call, which don't > short-circuit.
Well, in Scheme, everything looks like a function call: (define (deflate x) (if (> 0 x) (1+ x) (1- x))) Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list