Douglas Tutty wrote: > After thinking about it, yes it can all go in one line. Its more > elegant and doesn't use up memory space but its harder to read to > understand what its doing.
Depends on what you define as elegant. I dropped Perl several years ago
in preference to Python because I found Python's verbosity and clean syntax
more elegant than Perl's ability to cram tons of stuff on a single line.
While, as this shows, Python can suffer from the same problem of one-line-itus
it takes work to do it. :)
Sometimes I do lament the fact that Python is creeping into Perl's
TIMTOWDI at least in Python's case it is often a difference of a explicit
method call (if foo.has_key(bar):) and a language specific way to call that
method which reads much nicer (if bar in foo).
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