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Re: Proposed new conditional operator: "or else"

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On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 12:18:36 -0500, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
following:

>In the process of refactoring some code, I serendipitously created what I think is an essential new bit of Python syntax.  The “or else” statement.  I ended up with:
>
>        sites_string = args.sites or else self.config['sites']
>
>which, of course, is a syntax error today, but it got me thinking what we could do with an “or else” construct.  Perhaps an alternative to assertions?  Wouldn’t it be neat to write:

	Well -- currently, since Python does short circuit conditionals, ALL
"or" conditions are the equivalent of "or else" (which is an Ada construct:
A or B evaluates both sides, A or else B only evaluates B if A is false.
The converse operation in Ada is and then: A and then B)

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>   foo == 42 or else
>

	Has a PERL stink to it... like: foo == 42 or die
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Re: Proposed new conditional operator: "or else" Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-12-02 23:05 -0500

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