Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

def diff( x ):
   return 1 if x == 'x' else 0 if type( x )is str
   else[ 'sum', diff( x[ 1 ]), diff( x[ 2 ])]
   if x[ 0 ]== 'sum' else None

  Oops! That was one long line starting with "return";
  it was wrapped by the newsreader, but is not correct
  Python anymore when wrapped this way.