On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Michael Selik <m...@selik.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 8:09 AM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> >> Thank you. Personally, I'd like to see feedback from >> educators/teachers after they take the time to read the PEP and take >> some time to think about its consequences. > > > I've started testing the proposed syntax when I teach. I don't have a large > sample yet, but most students either dislike it or don't appreciate the > benefits. They state a clear preference for shorter, simpler lines at the > consequence of more lines of code.
This is partly because students, lacking the experience to instantly recognize larger constructs, prefer a more concrete approach to coding. "Good code" is code where the concrete behaviour is more easily understood. As a programmer gains experience, s/he learns to grok more complex expressions, and is then better able to make use of the more expressive constructs such as list comprehensions. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
