[sugar] [PATCH] Add speaker device and icon by default

[Eben Eliason]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
>  On 24.04.2008, at 18:01, Eben Eliason wrote:
>  >
>  >> +        mute_item_text = self._model.props.muted and 'Unmute' or
>  >> 'Mute'
>  >
>  > This is a tricky ternary stand-in.  Very clever.  Is it clear enough
>  > for others?
>
>
>  It's an abuse of Python, IMHO.

Tricky and abusive often go hand in hand, and abuses of languages are
often the most interesting, though clearly not the most transparent.
=)  C, for instance, seems to taunt with all of the glorious hacks it
is capable of executing as syntactically correct code. Duff's Device
[1], anyone?  Of course, usually susceptibility to such temptations
result in a clean shot through one's own foot, with a sharp segfault
bullet or worse.

- Eben

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device