At Thursday 19/10/2006 21:07, Brad wrote:
> Gah!!! That's *awful* in so many ways.
It has been my experience that Python has discouraging forums with
someone always calling someone else an idiot or telling them they are
awful in some way. I love Python, but the community is way too negative,
uptight and generally down on users who do not have PhD's in CS or Math.
I agree with you being angry.
It's true that our posts are going to stay for a long time, and
people could find and read them, and perhaps copy and use our posted
code. So when something is not up-to-the-standard or not following
the best practices or is not the best way of doing things, that
should be noted.
Certainly there is no need to be rude! Pointing out the deficiencies
and how to avoid them can be done in a kind manner.
But I don't think that "the community" in general is too negative.
It's a lot more "newbie-friendly" than other popular language's.
> (1) The name is bad. "invert" is not the same as "reverse". Here's an
> invert: 1/2 = 0.5. Your function falsely claims numbers aren't invertable.
Dictionary.com
invert = to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship.
Note that even on a mathematical sense, "inverse" does not mean only
"multiplicative inverse". -3 is the "additive inverse" of 3, by
example (See <http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AdditiveInverse.html>).
(BTW, integers -except two of them- are not inversible in Z).
So "invert" is not a bad name "per se". But having the reversed()
builtin and reverse() list method implies that a similarly rooted
name would be better (just to be coherent!) - perhaps reversed_string()?
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