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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 days ago (25 children)

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 12 points 2 days ago (16 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 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.

[–] rbos 1 points 2 days ago

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

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