Re: the core values of the Python "platform"

2017-09-14 Thread Rhodri James
On 14/09/17 03:22, Stefan Ram wrote: Ben Finney writes (special characters edited): 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. I have read »impo

Re: the core values of the Python "platform"

2017-09-14 Thread Bill
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:08:41 -0400, Darin Gordon wrote: Bryan Cantrill gave an interesting talk recently at a Node conference about "platform values" [1]. For those of us who don't have the time or inclination to watch a video, or who are unable to, could you summarise t

Re: the core values of the Python "platform"

2017-09-13 Thread Sean DiZazzo
On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 6:16:58 AM UTC-7, leam hall wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Darin Gordon wrote: > > > Bryan Cantrill gave an interesting talk recently at a Node conference about > > "platform values" [1]. The talk lead me to think about what the core values > > of th

Re: the core values of the Python "platform"

2017-09-13 Thread Ben Finney
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > I have read »import this« again, after reading the above, > but there was no indication whatsoever in it that says that > it was talking about "*hierarchies* in a code base" only. Then you have no basis for claiming that the Zen of Python means

Re: the core values of the Python "platform"

2017-09-13 Thread Ben Finney
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Thomas Jollans 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 speci

Re: the core values of the Python "platform"

2017-09-13 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 2017-09-13 15:08, Darin Gordon wrote: > Bryan Cantrill gave an interesting talk recently at a Node conference about > "platform values" [1]. The talk lead me to think about what the core values > of the Python "platform" are and I thought it would be good to ask this > question of the community.

Re: the core values of the Python "platform"

2017-09-13 Thread leam hall
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Darin Gordon wrote: > Bryan Cantrill gave an interesting talk recently at a Node conference about > "platform values" [1]. The talk lead me to think about what the core values > of the Python "platform" are and I thought it would be good to ask this > question of