Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com> writes: > The less code you have to write, the better. Less code means less > maintenance, and fewer opportunities for bugs.
While I agree with you in general, sometimes less code can be harder to maintain (when it is more difficult to understand). Some time ago, we had a (quite heated) discussion here about a one line signature transform involving a triply nested lambda construction. It was not difficult for me to understand what the construction did; however, the original poster found it very difficult to grasp. Often, functions returning functions are more difficult to understand than "first order" functions (those returning simple values only) -- at least for people not familiar with higher abstraction levels. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
