In <[email protected]> Scott David Daniels
<[email protected]> writes:
>First, a quote which took me a bit to find:
> Thomas William Körner paraphrasing Polya and Svego
> in A Companion to Analysis:
> Recalling that 'once is a trick, twice is a method,
> thrice is a theorem, and four times a theory,' we
> seek to codify this insight.
Good stuff.
>Let us apply this insight:
> Suppose in writing code, we pretty much go with that.
>A method is something you notice, a theorem is a function, and
>a theory is a generalized function.
>Even though we like DRY ("don't repeat yourself") as a maxim, let
>it go the first time and wait until you see the pattern (a possible
>function). I'd go with a function first, a pair of functions, and
>only then look to abstracting the function.
Thanks!
kynn
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