On 24/02/2013 19:40, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
if (some statement): # short form
rather than
if (some statement == true): # long form
What all those ugly brackets are for?
Mark,
Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established languages (C#,
Java), the use of () has been widespread and mandated by the compilers. I have never
heard anyone moan about the requirement to use parentheses. Now come Python in which
parens are optional, and all of a sudden they are considered bad and apparently widely
abandoned. Do you really not see that code with parens is much more pleasing visually? I
could understand someone's reluctance to use parens if they are very new to programming
and Pythons is their first language. But my impression here is that most group
contributors are long-time programmers and have long used () where they are required.
Again, I'm really surprised the community as a whole ignores the programming
"heritage" and dumps the parens in a hea
rtbeat.
Peter
Your words "the use of () has been widespread and mandated by the
compilers" and "have long used () where they are required". As they are
neither mandated nor required in Python it just wastes the time of
anybody reading code as they have to parse something that offers nothing
except visual noise. As for being "visually pleasing" that's simply
laughable. I want to be able to read code, not hang it in an art gallery.
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Cheers.
Mark Lawrence
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