Is performance something you are concerned with for this process? Yury On Sep 16, 2016 6:16 PM, "Justin Israel" <justinisr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 5:27 AM Alok Gandhi <alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Coming back to some of the points that Ian raised: >> > Readability is a perfectly valid goal to seek but I >> find maintainability is often overlooked. >> >> IMHO more readable code is more maintainable. Readability goes hand in >> hand with maintainability. In fact, I very much agree that code lasts >> longer than an author and if you write readable code it will be easier to >> read and understand for the people after you are gone and are not available >> to explain why you did what. If by maintainability you meant actually >> extensibility, then it is a completely different aspect. >> > > As an aside, I just recently went to a convention, and in one of the talks > the speaker opened with his list of priorities for designing software: > > 1. Integrity - The software should operate in a predictable manner, > respond appropriately to exceptional conditions, and clean up nicely during > a termination > > 2. Readability - The intent of the code should be clear > > 3. Simplicity (has to be justified to be more important than #2) > 4. Performance > > He basically yelled at us for 10 minutes about the importance of the first > two, and said only when you can prove to me that everything else is > addressed, that you should then look at performance. It was a pretty good > talk. > > >> > In driving to a solution avoiding the additional markup (as in my >> solution or in json/XML) you've likely put yourself (and too often your >> team after you've left) in a place where you'll need to rewrite the >> function for future feature requests. >> >> If you read my previous posts in this threads, you will see that I >> clearly mentioned that getting input is an administrative logic. In fact, I >> provisioned for it and alluded to Marcus about it. Here's what I wrote: >> >> - Right in the beginning, we parse the string in a single line, >> keeping the administrative logic out from the rest of our business code. >> You can easily replace this single line with whatever parser you want. >> >> This means that the code that is responsible for creating nodes should >> not worry itself with how it is getting the data in, JSON or YAML. And the >> parser, whichever it is, should not worry about what is going to happen to >> data it outputs. any good architecture should take care of this point. >> Making components decoupled and flexible. Good architecture does not only >> apply to huge libraries or big project, it should be given thought to every >> single small quantum of code, a function and even inside parts of a >> function. I did not avoid the input data structure, I simply did not work >> on that part as was not required my Marcus originally. Even then, I >> separated the code so that in my implementation, nowhere it does rely on >> whether I choose JSON or YAML or some other markup. If ten years later, >> somebody wants to use my implementation, with JSON the only change it would >> require is to change the first line of my code. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Marcus Ottosson <konstrukt...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> Thanks Ian! >>> >>> Some notes. >>> >>> - The implementation is up for grabs, but I'd like to keep the interface >>> of the function; that is, passing a single string with indentation for >>> hierarchy. >>> - Performance is not important here, because (1) the function is only >>> being used in example code, where the call itself should fall into the >>> background and (2) creating a hierarchy can safely take a few hundred >>> milliseconds if it means more readable code. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> msgid/python_inside_maya/CAFRtmODtC8L1BiXxbTOHRH_ >>> KwK32ZxRZeo%3DatdrKgdkeThNzRw%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAFRtmODtC8L1BiXxbTOHRH_KwK32ZxRZeo%3DatdrKgdkeThNzRw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >> msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPaTLMT8pNLXc4XM7jT4AVQETE37Q >> 9Z0pGYBBBjYZhYbLDHKMQ%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPaTLMT8pNLXc4XM7jT4AVQETE37Q9Z0pGYBBBjYZhYbLDHKMQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPGFgA0Sxx%2B2319C1Mv4omtaiEvjppJPrFjVYtg > mYxSJvs74AQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPGFgA0Sxx%2B2319C1Mv4omtaiEvjppJPrFjVYtgmYxSJvs74AQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. 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