On 2005 Jan 20, at 02:47, Skip Montanaro wrote:
Phillip> Actually, this is one of those rare cases where
optimization
Phillip> and clarity go hand in hand. Human brains just don't
handle
Phillip> nesting that well. It's easy to visualize two levels of
nested
Phillip> structure,
Phillip> Actually, this is one of those rare cases where optimization
Phillip> and clarity go hand in hand. Human brains just don't handle
Phillip> nesting that well. It's easy to visualize two levels of nested
Phillip> structure, but three is a stretch unless you can abstract at
At 07:03 PM 1/19/05 -0500, Timothy Fitz wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:03:30 +1000, Stephen Thorne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Flat is better than nested" has one foot in concise powerful
> programming, the other foot in optimisation.
>
> foo.bar.baz.arr involves 4 hashtable lookups. arr is just o
