On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > > Crazy thought: I wonder if Perl programmers have "multi > line Perl" competitions where they laugh their heads off > at how readable the code is, and how nobody in their > right mind would ever write Perl code that way?-)
Ha!! Okay, now I have to explain to my fellow bus passengers what it is that I just cracked up laughing at... You know what? I don't think I can. I do like readable code, but quite a few of my favorite language features are the ones commonly (ab)used to make unreadable code. C's ?: operator, Pike's interpretation of || for defaults, Python's lambda functions... all great ways to shorten your code, but so easily used for evil. I think I like things that can be used for evil. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
