In article <94709uf99...@mid.individual.net>, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote:
> On 2011-05-25, Matty Sarro <msa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > General readability is a farce. If it was true we would only > > have one section to the library. Different people enjoy > > reading, and can comprehend better in different ways. THat's > > why some people are super verbose - hell, just look at this > > here post! :) > > Despite individual proclivities, there remain standards of > readability enshrined in our dictionaries and grammar handbooks. > Claiming that code readability of code is to be judged solely > subjectively by each individual absolves code of the > responsibility to communicate to more than just its author. Also, the purpose of source code is to transmit information (to both the compiler and to human readers). That is a much narrower purpose than is served by books in a library, many of which are written as entertainment. Sometimes, the real enjoyment (in literature) comes in figuring out what the author really meant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
