On 21/04/2020 15:29, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:06 AM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote:
That's a good example, Chris. Thanks. I also don't see that a namespace
object would buy you much, if anything.
Going with the tersest proposal (twitter=twitter becomes twitter=), we'd
save something like 40 characters in the function call in the return
statement. I think making a change isn't worth adding more to the
language, but of course reasonable people can disagree.
Thanks. But it's really not about terseness. I've already typed more
in this thread than I'll probably save over a lifetime of
shorthanding. If I wanted shorthands, I'd just use shorter variable
names.
Removing duplication removes the possibility of desynchronization.
Now here's the heart of things. We're actually talking about
synchronization, which in this case happens to be done by using the same
name in different contexts. Sometimes this is a good thing, sometimes
not; calling it an anti-pattern is harsh, but it does channel your
thinking into tramlines that are not always a good thing. The number of
times I've changed "handle=handle" to "handle=medium_handle" as projects
have crept...
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