Dustan wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> Dustan wrote: [...] >> Repeat after me: >> >> "Not everything has to be a one-liner." > > Not everything has to be a one-liner. But readability helps. > Indeed. And there is absolutely no conflict between those two statements.
Guido resisted introducing tertiary expressions for as long as he did precisely because he realised that some people would use them to produce unreadable one-liners instead of readable multi-line expressions of the same idea. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
