reduce to be removed?

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Sun Nov 12 04:19:37 EST 2006


"Dustan" <DustanGroups at gmail.com> writes:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Repeat after me:
> >
> > "Not everything has to be a one-liner."
>
> Not everything has to be a one-liner. But readability helps.

Indeed. Complex one-liners are rarely as readable as a well-named
function call, implemented with several explicit readable lines in
one place, and then re-used as many times as necessary.

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Ben Finney




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