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[Python-Dev] Re: ternary operators (fwd)

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So I asked Simon Peyton-Jones and Phil Wadler how languages other than C
and its derivatives did conditional expressions; one of the replies was:

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Philip Wadler wrote:

> Tony Hoare had a nice ternary `if'.  He writes
>
> 	if c then d else e
>
> as
> 
> 	d <c> e
> 
> This satisfies an associative law:
> 
> 	d <c> (e <c> f)  =  d <c> f  =  (d <c> e) <c> f
> 
> The paper appeared, I think, in CACM circa 1982.

Perhaps this would be a good time to ask around and see what else people
have in their back pockets?

A-week-of-coding-can-sometimes-save-an-hour-in-the-library'ly yours,

Greg

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