A better self

Louis M. Pecora pecora at anvil.nrl.navy.mil
Thu Jul 11 15:18:33 EDT 2002


In article <slrnairg48.c4b.huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com>, Huaiyu Zhu
<huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com> wrote:

> Using self is indeed the most readable most of the time.
> 
> However, there are situations, mostly in numerical computations, where it is
> necessary to have, say, a dozen variables in one expression, and a dozen
> statements containing such expressions and some other statements in one
> method.  It is far more readable to have them all appear in one screen in a
> form that resembles written equations on paper, than to dogmatically follow
> a convention in a particular programming language.
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Huaiyu,

Nicely said.

-- 
Lou Pecora
  - My views are my own.



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