On Jan 23, 4:48 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> As for your other points, I think we're actually very much in agreement, > except for your tolerance of random posters asking what I believe is an > incoherent question: "what's the fastest way to do ...?". It seems to me > you're willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they've done > their profiling and considered their trade-offs, or at the very worst are > asking from purely intellectual curiosity. It depends on the specific problem and the context. For small well- defined algorithmic type problems, I just assume it's intellectual curiosity or that performance really matters. If the same question was asked in the context of, say, a typical web application fetching data from a database and rendering dynamic pages, I might have dismissed it as YAGNI. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
