Zen of Python

[Robert Kern]

Timothy Fitz wrote:
> On 19 Jan 2005 15:24:10 -0800, Carl Banks <invalidemail at aerojockey.com> wrote:
> 
>>The gist of "Flat is better than nested" is "be as nested as you have
>>to be, no more," because being too nested is just a mess.
> 
> 
> Which I agree with, and which makes sense. However your "gist" is a
> different meaning. It's not that "Flat is better than nested" it's
> that "Too flat is bad and too flat is nested so be as nested (or as
> flat) as you have to be and no more." Perhaps Tim Peters is far too
> concise for my feeble mind <wink>

If it were scrutable, it wouldn't be Zen.  :-)

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
   -- Richard Harter