__call__ bad style? (was Re: Callable modules?)

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> Jonathan Hogg wrote:
>         ...
> >> I prefer simplicity.  "Do the simplest thing that can possibly work".
> >> As you're showing, __call__ encourages tossing simplicity away.
> > 
> > Hah. You've got me there :-)
> > 
> > Yes, I believe in adding infrastructure that I know
> > the-day-after-tomorrow, I'll be glad I did ;-)
> 
> Bingo.  I had much the same approach for the first 20 years
> or so of my programming career,

Then I'm ahead of you by ... erm ... 13 years.  Wow, I've been
programming (admittedly only as a hobbyist) for nearly a third of my
life.  That's scary somehow.

Cheers,
M.

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