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Modern Programming (lemmy.zip)

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[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

I love something = condition and result1 or result2 in lua

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Python does that, too.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#boolean-operations-and-or-not

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

Are you just referring to how Python uses the English and/or instead of the more common &&/||? I think what the user above you was talking about was Lua's strange ternary syntax using and/or.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

no, the linked table shows how python also returns the first non-falsey result of an a or b expression rather than just giving a boolean. it's useful for initialising optional reference args: