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know the features of your language (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (14 children)

Ruby:

a || b

(no return as last line is returned implicitly, no semicolon)

EDIT: As pointed out in the comments, this is not strictly equivalent, as it will return b if a is false as well as if it's nil (these are the only two falsy values in Ruby).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Python:

return a or b

i like it because it reads like a sentence so it somewhat makes sense

and you can make it more comprehensive if you want to:

return a if a is not None else b

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This diverges from the OP code snippets if a has the value False.

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