Jonathan Gardner <[email protected]> writes:
> On Feb 18, 8:15 am, Steve Howell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> def print_numbers()
>> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map { |n|
>> [n * n, n * n * n]
>> }.reject { |square, cube|
>> square == 25 || cube == 64
>> }.map { |square, cube|
>> cube
>> }.each { |n|
>> puts n
>> }
>> end
>>
>
> If this style of programming were useful, we would all be writing Lisp
> today. As it turned out, Lisp is incredibly difficult to read and
> understand, even for experienced Lispers. I am pleased that Python is
> not following Lisp in that regard.
>
> for n in range(1,6):
^ should be 7
But for the rest, I agree with you. I can read Steve's version, but even
to an experienced Perl programmer that looks quite noisy :-)
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