Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 22:57 this Thursday (GMT):

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:24:01 +0200, David Brown wrote:
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def foo(a, b, c) :
if a :
if b :
if c :
doThis()
 
That looks unfinished to me.  So I will add a "return" at the end (with
a single tab indent, in this case).

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A redundant “return” ... kind of like my redundant “#end” comments, except
yours work in a more restricted set of places ...
>

Don't you ever just accept that a language is the way it is, and it is
perfectly useable that way?

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Of course not.
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Or think that perhaps other people in the world know better than you do
about how they want their language to work?

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And vice versa.
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Has it never occurred to you that the people behind a given
language - such as Python - considered various alternatives and decided
that making it the way they did was the best choice overall for the
language they wanted?

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Barring a few obvious stupidities, yes of course they were, and are, smart
people.

Subjectively, I prefer early returns over nested ifs:

def foo(a, b, c):
  if !a: return
  if !b: return
  if !c: return

  doThis()
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