Did no one notice that for(i = 99; i > 0; ++i)
Gives you an infinite loop (sort of) because i starts a 99, and increases every loop? Cheers, Ching-Yun Xavier Ho, Technical Artist Contact Information Mobile: (+61) 04 3335 4748 Skype ID: SpaXe85 Email: cont...@xavierho.com Website: http://xavierho.com/ On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Alf P. Steinbach <al...@start.no> wrote: > * Jean-Michel Pichavant: > >> John Nagle wrote: >> >>> Jonathan Hayward wrote: >>> >>>> I've posted "Usability, the Soul of Python: An Introduction to the >>>> Python Programming Language Through the Eyes of Usability", at: >>>> >>>> http://JonathansCorner.com/python/ >>>> >>> >>> No, it's just a rather verbose introduction to Python, in dark brown >>> type on a light brown background. One could write a good paper on this >>> topic, but this isn't it. >>> >>> >>> John Nagle >>> >> Why is it bad ? >> > > Consider > > > <quote> > From a usability standpoint, the braces go with the lines to print out the > stanza rather than the for statement or the code after, so the following is > best: > > for(i = 99; i > 0; ++i) > { > printf("%d slabs of spam in my mail!\n", i); > printf("%d slabs of spam,\n", i); > printf("Send one to abuse and Just Hit Delete,\n"); > printf("%d slabs of spam in my mail!\n\n", i + 1); > } > </quote> > > > This is just unsubstantiated opinion, but worse, it makes a tacit > assumption that there is "best" way to do indentation. However, most > programmers fall into that trap, and I've done it myself. In fact, when I > worked as a consultant (then in Andersen Consulting, now Accenture) I used > the style above. Petter Hesselberg, author of "Industrial Strength Windows > Programming" (heh, I'm mentioned) asked my why on Earth I did that, like, > nobody does that? It was a habit I'd picked up in Pascal, from very naïve > considerations of parse nesting levels, a kind of misguided idealism instead > of more practical pragmatism, but since I realized that that was an > incredibly weak argument I instead answered by pointing towards Charles > Petzold's code in his "Programming Windows" books. And amazingly I was > allowed to continue using this awkward and impractical style. > > I may or may not have been responsible for the similarly impractical > compromise convention of using three spaces per indentation level. At least, > in one big meeting the question about number of spaces was raised by the > speaker, and I replied from the benches, just in jest, "three!". And that > was it (perhaps). > > > Cheers, > > - Alf (admitting to earlier mistakes) > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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