[Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #1172711: Add 'long long' support to the array module. (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Sep 21 19:02:11 CEST 2011

Georg Brandl writes:

I don't think so. "skip if not" reads pretty well for me, while I always have to think twice about "unless" -- may be a non-native- speaker thing.

FWIW, speaking as one native speaker, I'm not sure about that. "do ... if not condition" doesn't bother me, whether I think of the condition as an exception or as the normal state of affairs. I find "do ... unless condition" to be quite awkward if the condition is a normal state.

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