Jordan a écrit : (snip) about Python Zen:
Perhaps we're just looking at an instance of a wider problem - smart people boil good ideas down into short slogans, which are nice and memorable and somewhat helpful, but can lead to bad consequences when lots of others start overusing or misunderstanding them.
This is true for just each and every "golden rule" in programming - like "goto are evil", "globals are evil", "side effects are evil", "early returns are evil", "public attributes are evil", etc... If you blindly apply any rule without understanding the rationales behind it, then you're into cargo-cult thinking. And once you understand the reasons that led someone to formulate such a rule, you just don't have to bother about it anymore - you just use your common sense to do what seems appropriate in a given situation.
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