[Raymond Hettinger ]
> Thanks Antoine, this is an important point that I hope doesn't get lost.
> In a language with exceptions, assignment expressions are less needful.
> Also, the pattern of having of having mutating methods return None
> further limits the utility.
It doesn't diminish the utili
> On Apr 28, 2018, at 8:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
>> I personally haven't written a lot of C, so have no personal experience,
>> but if this is at all a common approach among experienced C developers, it
>> tells us a lot.
>
> I think it's a matter of taste and personal habit. Some peopl
2018-04-28 17:45 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou :
> // Read up to n bytes from file descriptor
> if ((bytes_read = read(fd, buf, n)) == -1) {
> // Error occurred while reading, do something
> }
About C, there is a popular coding style (not used by our PEP 7) for comparison:
if (-1 == n)
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:49:33 -0700
Chris Barker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:21 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
>
> > Even if the C language allows assignments in if, I avoid them, because
> > I regularly have to debug my own code in gdb ;-)
> >
>
> I personally haven't written a lot of C, so
