Regarding coding style

castironpi at gmail.com castironpi at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 17:16:58 EDT 2008


On Mar 9, 4:25 am, Lie <Lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 9, 3:27 am, castiro... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > To Lie:
>
> > > Personally I preferred a code that has chosen good names but have
> > > little or no comments compared to codes that makes bad names and have
>
> > Personally I don't.  Show me a good one.  Until you do, it's not that
> > I won't like it, it's that I can't.  You know, in linguistics, there's
>
> But I much prefer it that the code has good names AND concise
> comments, not too short and not too long that it becomes obscure.

What do you mean?  If 'obscure' is the right word, then it's
subjective (from metrics import obscurity?), which means that 10% of
the people disagree with you, or 90% do.  The end-all be-all, there is
no such thing.  I don't think it's obscure; I do.  Is it?



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