On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 4:18:38 AM UTC+2, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:20:54 -0700, Στέφανος Σωφρονίου wrote: > > > I do believe though that if (!d) is a lot clearer than if (d == NULL) > > as it is safer than falsely assigning NULL in d, by pure mistake. > > Having made my living writing C code for a very long time, I always > found if (!d) *harder* to read, especially if it happened to be written > if(!d) without the space, because it was never a single character name > the ! disappeared into the noise.
Indeed it gets harder to distinguish it after a lot of time staring at your source code. I guess the following parts from "Zen of Python" apply to this case: - Beautiful is better than ugly. - Explicit is better than implicit. - Simple is better than complex. - Readability counts. > OTOH, = vs. == always stuck out like > a sore thumb. Then again, I grew up with monochrome terminals > vs. unusably slow syntax highlighting, and grayscale printers (and we > had to live in a small shoebox in the middle of the road). > > YMMV. Obviously. > > Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
