On Oct 26, 12:11 am, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > In <mailman.232.1288020268.2218.python-l...@python.org> Steve Holden > <st...@holdenweb.com> writes: > > > > >On 10/25/2010 10:47 AM, rantingrick wrote: > >> On Oct 25, 5:07 am, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > >>> In "The Zen of Python", one of the "maxims" is "flat is better than > >>> nested"? Why? Can anyone give me a concrete example that illustrates > >>> this point? > > >> Simple. This commandment (endowed by the anointed one, GvR) is > >> directed directly at lisp and those filthy lispers. If you don't know > >> what lisp is then Google it. Then try to program with it for one hour. > >> Very soon after your head will explode from the nested bracket plague > >> and then you shall be enlightened! > > >And everyone taking the Zen too seriously should remember that it was > >written by Tim Peters one night during the commercial breaks between > >rounds of wrestling on television. So while it can give useful guidance, > >it's nether prescriptive nor a bible ... > > Well, it's pretty *enshrined*, wouldn't you say? After all, it is > part of the standard distribution, has an easy-to-remember invocation, > etc. *Someone* must have taken it seriously enough to go through > all this bother. If it is as trivial as you suggest (and for all > I know you're absolutely right), then let's knock it off its pedestal > once and for all, and remove it from the standard distribution. > > ~kj
If you take zen seriously you dont get it If you dont take zen seriously you dont get it That -- seriously -- is zen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
