> Greg> 1) Repeating the name of the thing being switched on all the
> Greg> time, and the operator being used for comparison.
>
> What's worse, to my mind, is the not infrequent case where the thing
> being switched on or the operator changes. Sure, that's bad style,
> but sometimes you have to read other people's code like that.
You mean like this?
if x > 0:
...normal case...
elif y > 0:
....abnormal case...
else:
...edge case...
You have guts to call that bad style! :-)
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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