Jamie Willis <jw14896.2...@my.bristol.ac.uk> writes: > This could be written as: > > hello = "hello world " > hello .= strip()
−1, “.=” is visually too similar to “=”. Syntax that is ambiguous at a glance is a cost when reading, and here I think the cost is great. > In this slightly contrived example, the programmer saved (a small amount > of) time when writing the code. Code is read much more often than it is written; we should optimise for reading effort, not writing effort. -- \ “The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the | `\ great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of | _o__) knowledge.” —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, 1914–2004 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
