On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 3:01 AM James Lu <jam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think
>
> print("Remember to wear sunscreen!") if hot_outside unless
> Weather.is_raining()
>
> Is more readable than
>
> if hot_outside and not Weather.is_raining(): print("Remember to wear
> sunscreen!")
>
> I think the unless syntax would be especially useful when there is a series
> of functions like this.
>
> The general use case would be:
>
> side_effecting_expression if frequent_condition unless rare_condition
Can you find some non-toy examples where this forked condition is
actually better than simply using a boolean operator?
ChrisA
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