On Thu, Feb 06, 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>Gerald S. Williams:
>>
>> I'm an even-day fan of trinary operators myself, but this opens too
>> many questions. For example, with regard to short-circuiting, it will
>> be inconsistent with other expressions at some level in either form
>> or function.
>
> How so? If we give 'or' (and hence 'and') a higher priority --
> i.e. binding tighter -- than 'if' and 'else', it's unambiguous to the
> parser and also consistent with the if statement:
>
> if x and y:
> print 1
> else
> print 0
>
> means the same as
>
> print 1 if x and y else 0
>
> This is also similar to how lambda groups relative to and/or (and/or
> has a higher priority).
Are they really equivalent? What about
print h() if f() and g()
versus
if f() and g():
print h()
Does g() get called if f() is false? What about h()?
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