Whitespace delimiters suck

[Eric S. Johansson]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Roy Smith <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu> wrote:
>> When I was first learning programming (a quarter of a century ago!), 
>> there was the idea of the "telephone test", i.e. your code should be 
>> simple enough that if you read it to somebody on the phone they would 
>> understand it.

> hey, who the heck is reading code over the phone
> these days?

anyone trying to program using speech recognition.  Why would they 
do this you might ask?  Probably because they were injured from
programming using keyboards.

yes, it's not strictly reading code over the phone but there 
are significant similarities...

--- eric

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