By that logic, no one should write anything in idiomatic French because anyone who isn't fluent in French wouldn't be able to read it.
If writing in French for people who are not fluent, I think it would be a good idea to avoid idiomatic language.
account.status = ["paid", "unpaid"][amount_due > 0]
This does the same thing as the FizzBuzz example, coercing a bool to int. Here the int is used as an index into the list of the two strings.Personally, I found this handy and liked it a lot. Others didn't and now there is this, which isn't bad:
account.status = "unpaid" if amount_due > 0 else "paid"
Maybe it's less like using obscure French and more like speaking in a slightly different dialect, or in a different region with different cultural references.Treating a boolean as an integer is iffy
Multiplying a string by a boolean frankly should be a no-no.