In the original post: > I had been writing elegant but deeply nested Clojure code that was very difficult to read ...
I focus on expressivity, specifically because of the write-only phenomenom. This isn't peculiar to clojure; this happened a lot in the Perl days (so much so, that that's where I remember "write-only code" being coined). I've seen it with Scheme, Lua, and JavaScript as well. Some people see it as a flaw of the language, but it's actually the flexibility of the language that allows it. And that's why many people have said things like this: "Write your code _first_ for people to read. You needn't worry about the compiler, it will have much less trouble understanding it than the people if it's correct." (That's my phrasing.) So, I wouldn't call code "elegant" if _you_ have trouble reading it when you come back to it. The algorithm could be elegant, but not the code. This is just how I use the word, though... I don't get to define it. > Though it's possible to write flatter more linear, more readable, more maintainable code, I didn't really want to, and ... What you wrote sounds to me very much like, "I had some pain, and I learned that what I did caused the pain, and I figured out how to fix the pain... but I'd rather not" That *apparent* contradiction suggests to me that you skipped the important part about what you really like about that, and I'm very curious... Why didn't you want to write the easier-to-read code? -Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
