The ternary syntax is really my only real gripe with python design -- putting the conditional BETWEEN the true and false values feels so very messy to me.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (16 children)

It's kinda natural to me having used Perl a lot.

[–] l3mming@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

You clearly haven't used Perl a lot. Perl's ternary looks like:

$even = $num % 2 ? "nay" : "yay";

Incidentally, it is also the same as PHP's, but mainly because PHP stole it.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You do get the if in the middle of stuff though in the form print(debug message) if $debug

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait until you learn that postfix conditionals are syntactic sugar and the compiler* turns that line into the equivalent of $debug and print(debug message), putting the conditional in first place, a lot like the ternary operator.

* Perl compiles to bytecode before running.

The ternary operator itself isn't implemented in terms of and (and or) but it could be.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Luckily I don't need to read or write bytecode and all that matters to me is the syntax

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

perl -e 'print "fart\n" if 1;'

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