Hacker News Reader

Comment by QuadrupleA | Hacker News Reader

What's so monstrous about it? It's practically English:

    cssClass = 'selected' if isCurrentTab else 'deselected'

View on HN

You have a weird perception of English. "If the tab is selected, the CSS class is 'selected', else it's deselected.

Or in pseudocode

    if isCurrentTab
      cssClass = 'selected'
    else
      cssClass = 'deselected'

Even ternaries read weird. "css class is current tab HUH?? selected COLON! deselected"

“Set css class to ‘selected’ if it’s the current tab, or else ‘deselected’.”

Both read grammatically fine to me. If you prefer to do things in 4 lines rather than one, and repeat the variable, that's up to you I guess - a lot of people seem to agree - but honestly I don't get what the fuss is about.

Probably b/c Python abuses the same keywords way too much. (But that shouldn't be such a surprise already to oppose this particular case.)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com