"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 13, 4:57 pm, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Now for the algorithm: all of that testing to see if you are about to > > > sail off the end of the world is a bit ugly and slow. You can use bit- > > > bashing, as Paul suggested, even though it's on Steven D'Aprano's list > > > of 6 deadly sins :-) > > > > Thou shallt not bit - bash > > > > What are the other five? > > """ > ... regexes have their place, together with pointer arithmetic, bit > manipulations, reverse polish notation and goto. The problem is when > people use them inappropriately ... > """ >
I find this unsatisfactory - I was hoping for a five commandment style of thing, setting out proper prohibitions against evil stuff. It seems that I am a closet fundamentalist. A sixth, btw is: Thou shallt not use globals. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
