On 10/26/10 06:56, Steve Holden wrote: > On 10/25/2010 3:11 PM, kj wrote: >> In <mailman.232.1288020268.2218.python-l...@python.org> Steve Holden >> <st...@holdenweb.com> writes: >> >>> On 10/25/2010 10:47 AM, rantingrick wrote: >>>> On Oct 25, 5:07 am, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: >>>>> In "The Zen of Python", one of the "maxims" is "flat is better than >>>>> nested"? Why? Can anyone give me a concrete example that illustrates >>>>> this point? >>>> >>>> Simple. This commandment (endowed by the anointed one, GvR) is >>>> directed directly at lisp and those filthy lispers. If you don't know >>>> what lisp is then Google it. Then try to program with it for one hour. >>>> Very soon after your head will explode from the nested bracket plague >>>> and then you shall be enlightened! >>>> >>> And everyone taking the Zen too seriously should remember that it was >>> written by Tim Peters one night during the commercial breaks between >>> rounds of wrestling on television. So while it can give useful guidance, >>> it's nether prescriptive nor a bible ... >> >> Well, it's pretty *enshrined*, wouldn't you say? After all, it is >> part of the standard distribution, has an easy-to-remember invocation, >> etc. *Someone* must have taken it seriously enough to go through >> all this bother. If it is as trivial as you suggest (and for all >> I know you're absolutely right), then let's knock it off its pedestal >> once and for all, and remove it from the standard distribution. >> > I don't know who decided to put the "this" module into Python as an > Easter egg. But don't think you can suppress it now. Trying to do so > would only bring out people's inherent religious fervor and cause an > outcry you would regret.
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