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Re: conditional print. Is correct to use it?by kcott (Archbishop) |
on Oct 28, 2020 at 06:42 UTC ( [id://11123251]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
G'day pvaldes, In terms of style, I'd say it's perfectly acceptable to embed an expression in a print list. Having said that, if the expression is long or complicated, I'd usually move it out of the print statement.
As others have already pointed out, a FALSE value can be "non empty", so || is probably not the best choice. # (fo will be updated with a real value in this part) You'll need to tell us what's going on there. My first guess was that you're perhaps doing something like:
when what you really wanted was something like:
But there would be dozens of reasons why your update could be returning a "forrible" value. :-) — Ken
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