On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 03:08:19 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
It's hard to find a balance between fully explicit and fully
automatic. I find myself going back and forth between those two
extremes.
Ali
Code is something that humans write and read (and read far more
than write).
So I prefer to optimise for mental processing ;-)
By this, I mean reducing the amount of information I need to
chunk, to make sense of something (whether that be writing, or
reading).
e.g
double[] a;
string s = "1.2";
a.append(s)
requires me to go off and discover what append is doing, since
'append' is clearly not correctly describing what is actually
going on here, in this little chunk.
So, now I have to go off and discover the extra chunk I need, in
order to make sense of this little chunk. Suddenly, the chunk has
become a lot larger than it needed to be.
so yeah, a simple rename of append would help..
or even..
a.append( s.to!ConvertToElementType(a) );
That's not valid code of course, but the semantics are all
contained in that single chunk.
