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
could you summarise these platform values?
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. What would you consider the top
(<= 5) core values?
In no particular order:
- The Ze
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
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
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
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 thi
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 g
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. What would you consider
