Docstrings considered too complicated

Mel mwilson at the-wire.com
Fri Feb 26 15:52:00 EST 2010


Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600 Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Reminiscent of:
>>> mov  AX,BX               ; Move the contents of BX into AX

>> Well, there might be some confusion there as to what gets moved where,
>> wouldn't you say? I guess this goes away after a couple of months,
>> though.

> I agree to that statement, I was surprised that mov AX,BX assumes that
> BX is the source, and AX the destination. I never programmed in
> assembler though.

You could think of it as a not bad use of the design principle "Clear The 
Simple Stuff Out Of The Way First".  Destinations are commonly a lot simpler 
than sources -- just as in Python assignment statements.  So you can tell 
more or less at a glance what's going to be changed, then get into the deep 
analysis to find what it's going to be changed to.

	Mel.





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