In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nigel Rantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote: > > > > There's a well known theory in studies of the human brain which says people > > are capable of processing about 7 +/- 2 pieces of information at once. > > It's not about processing multiple taks, it's about the amount of things > that can be held in working memory. Yes, and that's what I'm talking about here. If there's N possible code paths, can you think about all of them at the same time while you look at your code and simultaneously understand them all? If I write: if foo: do_this() else: do_that() it's easy to get a good mental picture of all the consequences of foo being true or false. As the number of paths go up, it becomes harder to think of them all as a coherent piece of code and you have to resort to examining the paths sequentially. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
