On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:40:05 +0100, <piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> if (some statement): # short form
>
> rather than
>
> if (some statement == true): # long form
What all those ugly brackets are for?
Mark,
Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established
languages (C#, Java), the use of () has been widespread and mandated by
the compilers. I have never heard anyone moan about the requirement to
use parentheses.
You've never heard me then. I ... "strongly dislike" having to parse
visual elements which I consider superfluous and implicit.
Does the English language have a proverb like "not being able to see the
forest for the trees"?
To me, a C source looks like all brackets. Can't see the code for all the
brackets.
Now come Python in which parens are optional, and all of a sudden they
are considered bad and apparently widely abandoned. Do you really not
see that code with parens is much more pleasing visually?
I guess one can get just as religious about the brackets as one can about
the whitespace.
if ( condition ) { action }
vs
if condition: action
In time estimated, I'd say I can read and understand Python code about 20%
faster than any of these brackety languages, even compared to languages I
worked a with couple of years longer. That's a lot of effort saved.
Michael
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