On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:05:37 +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > >> I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which >> are more suitable to a different P-language... :-) > I feel that python is more beautiful and readable, even if you write > short programs. > >> How about """best compromize between shortness and readibility >> plus elegance of design"""? > I would love to choose those criteria for future events. But I'm not > aware of any algorithm that is capable of creating a ranking upon them.
What is your algorithm for determining "shortest" program? Are you counting tokens, lines or characters? Does whitespace count? -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
