boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Sunnan]

Aahz wrote:
> Note very, VERY, *VERY* carefully that the quote says nothing about
> "boring code".  The quote explicitly refers to "reams of trivial code"
> as boring -- and that's quite true.  Consider this distinction:

Thank you for this important clarification.

>     if foo == 'red':
>         print 'foo is red'
>     elif foo == 'blue':
>         print 'foo is blue'
> 
> versus
> 
>     print "foo is", foo

Is the space added automatically? (Like awk does, if you add a comma.)

> I'm sure you can think of many other examples -- real examples -- if you
> put your mind to work; Guido's point is about the essential necessity of
> refactoring and rewriting code for conciseness and clarity.

Which is a good point to make in almost any language, for code that is 
to be maintained.

Sunnan