Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Sep 24 11:00:24 CEST 2005

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Terry Reedy wrote:

> Now, can you honestly say that you would (naively) read
> 
>   return foo if bar else baz
> 
> and be certain you knew what it meant?

I can honestly say that, given I knew I was reading Python
code, it would never have entered by head to read "foo if"
as meaning that "foo" was the condition. Bizarrely backwards
too much it would be.

Greg

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