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Re: One liners

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Date Sat, 7 Dec 2013 13:40:13 +1100
Subject Re: One liners
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On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> As for readability, I accept that ternary if is unusual compared to other
> languages...

All the C-derived ternary operators put the condition first, but
Python puts the condition in the middle. What that does for
readability I don't really know. Which is more important?

ChrisA

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Re: One liners Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-12-06 17:20 -0700
  Re: One liners Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-07 02:28 +0000
    Re: One liners Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 13:40 +1100
    Re: One liners Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-06 22:27 -0500
      Re: One liners Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 15:06 +1100
      Re: One liners Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-07 11:27 +0000
        Re: One liners Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-12-07 14:41 +0200
          Re: One liners Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-12-07 16:13 +0000
            Re: One liners Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-07 16:25 +0000
              Re: One liners Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-12-08 02:23 +0000
            Re: One liners Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 09:26 -0700
            Re: One liners Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-12-07 19:49 +0200
            Re: One liners Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-12-07 16:02 -0500
      Re: One liners Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 09:56 -0700
        Re: One liners rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 09:10 -0800
      Re: One liners Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 10:02 -0700

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