On 2005 Jan 20, at 02:47, Skip Montanaro wrote:
Phillip Actually, this is one of those rare cases where
optimization
Phillip and clarity go hand in hand. Human brains just don't
handle
Phillip nesting that well. It's easy to visualize two levels of
nested
Phillip structure,
At 07:03 PM 1/19/05 -0500, Timothy Fitz wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:03:30 +1000, Stephen Thorne
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Flat is better than nested has one foot in concise powerful
programming, the other foot in optimisation.
foo.bar.baz.arr involves 4 hashtable lookups. arr is just one
Phillip Actually, this is one of those rare cases where optimization
Phillip and clarity go hand in hand. Human brains just don't handle
Phillip nesting that well. It's easy to visualize two levels of nested
Phillip structure, but three is a stretch unless you can abstract at
