Dave Hansen wrote: > And Basic, and Fortran, and Lisp, and just about any programming > language you care to name, including python (if Condition: Affirmative > else: Negative). > > Not to mention that the sequence is identical to execution order. > It's just plain goofy to have to scan to the middle of an expression > to find out what happens first, then depending on the result of that, > skipping back over what you just skipped.
1 word: Perl > FWIW, in over 20 years of C programming, I use it pretty rarely too, > though I never had to look it up after I first saw it in K&R. It only > very rarely holds any advantage over a simple if/else statement, > especially in modern compilers. It's most useful in macros, which > python doesn't even have. same time span and I used it zillions of times ==eric -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
