On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 03:17:24PM +0200, Alex Hall wrote:

> I'm copying my earlier post because apparently linking to it repeatedly has
> no effect and people keep on claiming that this method wouldn't be useful
> while not saying a word about the evidence I presented that it would be.

Perhaps it's just that people don't think that the examples are 
compelling. Or they are burning out and finding it hard to care.

Personally, I found your examples underwhelming because they're mostly 
repetitions of the same pattern. I'd find it more interesting if there 
were a larger variety of cases, not merely a larger number, and I'd find 
it *really* interesting if you found a couple of examples of bugs caused 
by the common idioms.

E.g. the slicing and "branch of length" idioms are tricky to get right 
if the index is negative. Find a couple of bugs in publicly visible code 
because people forgot to take negative indices into account, and you 
might find that more people will sit up and take notice.


-- 
Steve
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