One natural solution would look like this: bool b1 = SomeCondition(); bool b2 = b1 || SomeOtherCondition(); bool b3 = b2 || SomeThirdCondition(); // any other condition bool bn = bn_1 || SomeFinalCondition(); if (bn) { // do stuff } This has the benefits of being easy to understand, being applicable to all cases and … Read more
This has nothing to do with Python; global variables are bad in any programming language. However, global constants are not conceptually the same as global variables; global constants are perfectly harmless. In Python the distinction between the two is purely by convention: CONSTANTS_ARE_CAPITALIZED and globals_are_not. The reason global variables are bad is that they enable … Read more
Let me offer some perspective on why we added this feature to the language, when clearly we didn’t strictly need to (all methods refs can be expressed as lambdas.) Note that there is no right answer. Anyone who says “always use a method ref instead of a lambda” or “always use a lambda instead of … Read more