On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:30:40 +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> > wrote:
>> No, the problem is that you are using way too many functions, that do >> too little. The problem with that is then that you have to give names >> to all the functions, which then find people difficult to read because >> they don't just need to the code in question itself; they also need to >> dozen of helper functions that it relies on. >> Or you could avoid introducing the function altogether, to make it more >> readable. This makes it more pythonic, also: readability counts (from >> the Zen of Python). > So if I'm reading right you are saying something in the lines: > "using too many functions is bad just because it is unreadable and > non-understandable to average (could I say mediocre?) programmers"... > Unfortunately I thought that delegating responsibilities to other > functions, and thus writing small chunks of code, is what good software > engineering is... Well my bad... Also from the Zen: flat is better than nested. One of the aspects of flatter call trees and object hierarchies is that I hit the bottom (language features or the standard library) sooner, and I "should" already have the language and its standard library in my brain. That said, I also tend to break my programs into layers, but I do try to make each layer as thin as possible (but no thinner). > Although you have a point -- that of being hard to comprehend by > average programmers -- but this doesn't mean it is a wrong (as in ugly) > solution... Also, with respects, but the "pythonic" solution involving > generators (or iterators) and "zip" or "all" function -- although I > appreciate it as it comes close to FP -- is not what I would call > readable and understandable by non-guru programmers... I finally got it through my thick head that I've been *doing* functional programming with [*nix] shells and pipes for years, well back into my non- guru days. Dan -- Dan Sommers A death spiral goes clock- <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> wise north of the equator. Atoms are not things. -- Werner Heisenberg -- Dilbert's PHB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
