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From: James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:44:39 +1000
Subject: Re: Feature suggestion -- return if true
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> w=
rote:
> You stated that
>
> =C2=A0return? <expr>
>
> was equivalent to
>
> =C2=A0return <expr> or None

This is _not_ what I said.

Quoting from my earlier post:

"""
>    return? expr

This syntax does not fit well within python ideology.

> be expanded to
>
>    _temp =3D expr
>    if _temp: return _temp

This could be simplified to just:

return expr or None
"""

Please read carefully before putting words in my mouth.

I stated very clear y that return? expr didn't seem fitting
in the python ideology as syntax for this behavior.

cheers
James

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