Russel Winder:
>I continue to be intrigued by people who believe that code, unlike text, is
>more readable in a monospace font. Personally I think monospace fonts make
>code unreadable,<
I guess it's a matter of personal preferences. But non-proportional fonts have
two advantages:
- it's easy to count spaces, vertical alignments and so on;
- often if the non-proportional is well designed it's simpler to tell apart
glyphs like Jl1j0oO;:.
> Given an imperative language with no tail recursion capability
Both DMD and LDC (and probably GDC too) currently are able to turn some cases
of tail recursion to iterative code.
> def sumOfSquares ( sequence ) :
> return sum ( [ item * item for item in sequence ] )
Since many years and many versions of Python the pythonic way to write that is
to use a lazy iterable:
def sumOfSquares (sequence):
return sum(item * item for item in sequence)
I have suggested few times a list/lazy comp syntax for D too, and I have tried
to explain why it's a good thing (it helps "chunking" in the mind of the
programmer).
Bye,
bearophile
