Clarity vs. code reuse/generality

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Jul 7 10:41:59 EDT 2009


In article <mailman.2765.1246971084.8015.python-list at python.org>,
Jean-Michel Pichavant  <jeanmichel at sequans.com> wrote:
>
>Can't we just calm down ? I'm really sorry my ignorance started this 
>thread, and my apologies go to Kj who's obviously more fluent in english 
>than me.
>I've never used sense in that way before, nor I've seen used by others 
>until now. However Kj is right, and my dictionary seems wrong 
>(wordreference.com). I've searched through others dictionaries and find 
>out this is actually applicable to functions. My bad.

You were not the first person to point out that "sense" is a poor
variable name.  Unless KJ is specifically using this code in the context
of a math class, I still think that "sense" is completely inappropriate.
Your English fluency is just fine.
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