>While I don't disagree with some of your main points, I do think that
>your proposal would eliminate a natural and easy to understand use of
>the current behavior of "or" that I tend to use quite a bit. Your
>proposal would break a lot of code, and I can't think of a better
>"conditional operator" than the one thats already there.
>
>I often find myself using 'or' to conditionally select a meaningful
>value in the absence of a real value:
I agree. I find I often have an object with an optional friendly name
(label) and a manditory system name. So this sort of thing becomes common:
'%s blah blah' % (foo.label or foo.name)
The if-else-expression alternative works, but isn't quite as readable:
'%s blah blah' % (foo.label ? foo.label : foo.name)
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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
http://www.object-craft.com.au/
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