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> Python has lambdas so you can still write: (snippet) Do you seriously consider this less of a hassle than branching on a frigging bit?
by catnaroek 9y ago
> Python has lambdas so you can still write: (snippet)
Do you seriously consider this less of a hassle than branching on a frigging bit?
- lmm 9y agoI think single entry/single exit is very valuable, and worth a bit of clunkiness for. And the branch version is also pretty clunky: either the long-winded "return ", abuse of "and"/"or", or the weirdly backwards expression version of "if" that Python has.
- catnaroek 9y agoI don't disagree that branching on bits is clunky. That it's still less clunky than using Church or Scott-encodings speaks volumes of the practicality of the latter.