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Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Oct 22 07:41:49 EDT 2014 
On 22/10/2014 10:27, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> without not:
>>> j = [j+1, 3][j>=10]
>>> with not:
>>> j = [3, j+1][not (j>=10)]
>>>
>>
>> The death penalty should be reintroduced into the UK for two crimes, writing
>> code like the above and using google groups.
>
> No no no. Code like that doesn't deserve death, just community
> service. I've seen much MUCH worse... where multiple conditional
> expressions get combined arithmetically, and then the result used
> somewhere... I also may have been guilty of same, myself, though I'm
> going to plead the internet's equivalent of the Fifth Amendment to the
> US Constitution and not incriminate myself by showing the code...
>
> ChrisA
>

Perhaps you're correct.  Is there anything worse than looking at a 
dreadful piece of code that makes no sense at all and knowing that you'd 
written it six months earlier?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence
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