[Python-ideas] Does jargon make learning more difficult?

[Rhodri James]

On 22/08/18 07:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> "Wait wait wait!" should ideally never happen. In programming, surprises
> are not a good thing, and they're even less good when they are
> retroactive.
> 
> "Ha, fooled you! You thought you were dealing with an eagerly evaluated
> expression, but it was a deferred function body declaration instead!
> Mwahahahaha!!!"

This, by the way, is why think using the same syntax for function 
definition and generator definition was a mistake.  It's only when I 
reach a "yield" statement that I realise my expectations for this code 
are wrong.

(That was a decision made a long time ago, and I'm not fool enough to 
think that there's any benefit in trying to change it now.  I can still 
be a grumpy old man over it, though.)

-- 
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd