On 09 Jan 2005 03:10:15 -0800, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Trying to push it a level further (down to expressions) would, IMO, be >> a lot of effort for something which would hurt readability a lot. > >I think we should just try to do things in a simple and general way >and not try to enforce readability. For example, the >slightly-overcomplex code that I proposed might have been generated by >a macro, or even by a compiler from some other language. No human >would ever have to look at it, so it doesn't matter whether it's >easily readable. There's no reason to add needless constraints on the >language just to make writing ugly code difficult. The main goal >should be to make writing clear code easy, not to worry about whether >someone might also write ugly code. +1 ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
