Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > >Over the years, my use of comments has evolved. I was taught, "You >should comment your code". Eventually, I came to realize that the real >mandate is, "You should make it easy to understand your code". Comments >are just one possible tool to help achieve that goal.
Absolutely correct. In my view, this is one of the strongest attributes of Python -- its syntax is such that much of the code can be read out loud like prose. That's a HUGE benefit. Code is read a lot more often than it is written. Ruby has a lot of followers, and I am trying to get excited about it, but it has succumbed to the same special-characters-as-syntax disease that killed Perl. Much Ruby code is just unreadable. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
