Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > the important > considerations are not "will it take two extra nanoseconds to execute" > but "can my successor understand what the code's doing" and "will he, > if he edits my code, have a reasonable expectation that he's not > breaking stuff". These are always important.
Forget about your successor. Will *you* be able to figure out what you did 6 months from now? I can't tell you how many times I've looked at some piece of code, muttered, "Who wrote this crap?" and called up the checkin history only to discover that *I* wrote it :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
