On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > I thought programs were read more than written. So if writing is made > a bit more problematic but the result is more readable because we are > able to use symbols that are already familiar from other contexts, I > would say it is worth it.
It's a matter of extents. If code is read ten times for every time it's written, making it twenty times harder to write and a little bit easier to read is still a bad tradeoff. Also: To what extent IS that symbol familiar from some other context? Are you using Python as a programming language, or should you perhaps be using a mathematical front-end? Not everything needs to perfectly match what anyone from any other context will expect. This is, first and foremost, a *programming* language. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
