On 03/27/2010 10:28 PM, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > one might like to name the complex block of logic, just to make it > readable: > > > x = 1 > def account_for_non_square_pixels(x): > ((some complex logic)) > account_for_non_square_pixels() > y = 2 > > > But defining and then calling the function like that is a tad > cumbersome. So I was wondering about: >
I never liked the narrow definition of function as "reusable piece of code". This narrow definition implies that a piece of code used only once do not need to be made a function. I would rather define function as "a logically independent piece of code" and encourage refactorizing code into functions even if they are only used once as long as they are conceptually a "step" and being able to reuse code as a nice side-effect of it. Under this definition, the "some complex logic" conceptually is an independent piece of code that can (and probably should) be factorized. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
