Re: Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-18 Thread Robin Becker
On 18/03/2015 00:35, Mark Lawrence wrote: I've just come across this http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695 Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly on the fence. There was a long th

Re: Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 18/03/2015 14:59, Ian Kelly wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Dan Sommers wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:35:42 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: I've just come across this http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695 An

Re: Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-18 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:35:42 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> I've just come across this >> http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of >> this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695 >> &g

Re: Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-18 Thread Jason Swails
On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 00:35 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I've just come across this > http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of > this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695 > > Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly

Re: Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Sommers
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:25:45 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wednesday 18 March 2015 12:14, Dan Sommers wrote: >> According to the article itself, "it relies in an implementation >> detail (the order the zip function iterates over the arrays) to >> work." Then again, the article also points t

Re: Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-17 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wednesday 18 March 2015 12:14, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:35:42 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> I've just come across this >> http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of >> this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695 >>

Re: Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-17 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 18 March 2015 at 00:35, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I've just come across this > http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of this > http://bugs.python.org/issue23695 > > Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly on the &

Re: Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Sommers
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:35:42 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I've just come across this > http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of > this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695 > > Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitt

Re: Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-17 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I've just come across this > http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of this > http://bugs.python.org/issue23695 > > Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly on

Brilliant or insane code?

2015-03-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
I've just come across this http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695 Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly on the fence. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do fo