On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:53 pm, Rick Johnson wrote: > Tell you what: test your hypothesis on non-programmers and > report back here.
Why would someone do that? The purpose of source code is not to communicate with non-programmers. It is to communicate with other programmers. (If the code is executable by a computer as well, that's even better.) I wouldn't ask a non-programmer to critique my source code any more than I would ask a non-English reader to critique my English prose, or a non-musician to read my musical score[1]. It would annoy the non-programmer and provide no useful results. > all i'm > suggesting is an extrapolation of that philosophy into the > realms of conditional logic. By writing True == True when you actually mean just True. > I'm thinking of writing a linter (or pre-parser, call it > what you like) that will enforce the explicit forms that i > have outlined above. That's an excellent idea. And just like I promised all those many, many years ago when you announced you were re-writing Python to implement all your other brilliant ideas, I'll beta test it for you. If and when you actually write some code and make it publicly available. [1] Always supposing I could write a musical score. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
