Raul Miller rauldmiller at gmail.com wrote
Fri Sep 12 22:18:58 HKT 2008
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:07 AM, 0j1 <j at asteroid.demon.co.uk> wrote:
It's harder to write tacit code than explicit and harder to debug it
when it doesn't work.
In my opinion, this depends on the length of the code. (And on your
background.)
Also, in my opinion, the advantage of tacit code (other than speed)
is that some manipulations are easier with tacit code than explicit
code.
Agreed.
For example, compare:
3 :'10+y'&.^. 2 3 5
10&+&.^. 2 3 5
For the explicit version, I think it's clearer as:
^ 10 + ^. 2 3 5
and from this you get the explicit verb (3 : '^ 10 + ^. y') .
Of course, indirect manipulations are sometimes superior
1x10 * 2 3 5
--
Raul
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