r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu> writes: > >>>> import this > > It says »Flat is better than nested.«, which would > mean that > > x.f().g().h() > > is better than > > h( g( f( x )))
That's quite a stretch. Why would “flat is better than nested” mean that specifically, rather than other possible interpretations? I could try to argue, for example, that “flat is better than nested” means that “no indentation is better than indentation”. But why should anyone take that interpretation seriously? As I understand it, “flat is better than nested” is talking about *hierarchies* in a code base. It's not IIUC referring to anything about the difference between expressions like you wrote. -- \ “If society were bound to invent technologies which could only | `\ be used entirely within the law, then we would still be sitting | _o__) in caves sucking our feet.” —Gene Kan, creator of Gnutella | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
