On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:36:47PM -0400, David Mertz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 8:40 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > > "Clear and easily understandable" is subjective. What is clear and > > understandable to me may be impenetrably confusing to others, or > > obnoxiously dumbed down. > > > > Strunk and White's most famous mandate of "omit needless words" is likewise > subjective.
Take the word out of the sentence, and does the sentence still mean the same thing? Then the word was needless. That's an objective test. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/SXUJNGR6EFCCPYJ7Y6RWKWMM72K33LPI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
