python3: 'where' keyword

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Sun Jan 9 16:12:08 EST 2005


On 09 Jan 2005 03:10:15 -0800, Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:

>Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> writes:
>> Trying to push it a level further (down to expressions) would, IMO, be
>> a lot of effort for something which would hurt readability a lot.
>
>I think we should just try to do things in a simple and general way
>and not try to enforce readability.  For example, the
>slightly-overcomplex code that I proposed might have been generated by
>a macro, or even by a compiler from some other language.  No human
>would ever have to look at it, so it doesn't matter whether it's
>easily readable.  There's no reason to add needless constraints on the
>language just to make writing ugly code difficult.  The main goal
>should be to make writing clear code easy, not to worry about whether
>someone might also write ugly code.
+1 ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter



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