On 2006-09-28, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Carl J. Van Arsdall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Things like decorators and metaclasses certainly add power, but they add >> > complexity too. It's no longer a simple language. >> > >> Well, I think a simple language is a language that makes the simple >> things simple and some of the complex things simple. But I also like a >> language where, if I need it, I can tap into some raw power and do that >> really wild stuff. So its simple to use if that's all you need yet >> offers the complexity to get things done that a purely "simple" language >> can't do. I'd say its as simple as you want it to be :) > > The problem is, if the complex features are there, people will use them. > On any large project, there will always be some people who revel in using > every obscure feature of a language. That forces everybody else on the > team (and all future members of the team) to know (or learn) those features > in order to be able to use and maintain the code base.
I would think that this kind of issues is the responsibility of the project leader. Otherwise you might as well remove the possibilty of a recursive function. There may always be someone that writes complicated recursive functions whenever a simple iterative solution would do fine. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
