On 2007-11-23, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The big deal is that "self." occupies important horizontal > screen real estate. That is, it is usually not self in itself > that is problematic, but the overflowing lines is. Take this > silly vector class for example: > > 1 class Vector: > 2 def __init__(self, x, y, z): > 3 self.x = x > 4 self.y = y > 5 self.z = z > 6 def abs(self): > 7 return math.sqrt(self.x * self.x + self.y * self.y + > self.z * self.z) > > I like that a lot. This saves 12 characters for the original > example and removes the need to wrap it. > > 7 return math.sqrt(.x * .x + .y * .y + .z * .z) > > +1 Readability counts, even on small screens.
-1 Refactoring is a more expedient response than language redesign. def sum_of_squares(*args): return sum(arg*args for arg in args) -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
