At 04:44 AM 7/19/2008, Kent Johnson wrote:
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Readability counts. <--
>>
>> Personally I think my way is more readable. It says what it means
>> without any fluff. IMO it is explicit, readable, concise and to the
>> point.
>
> Well, readability is in the eye of the reader. Also, because I lived in
> Japan 30 years, I could throw a concise, explicit, and
to-the-point Japanese
> sentence at you that you wouldn't understand at all.
Yes, and then if I complained that the sentence was not readable you
would rightly conclude that the problem was with the reader, not the
sentence.
Maybe we're running my analogy into the failure it deserves.
Your basic point is that return x != 0 is standard, idiomatic
Pythonese and I'm wrong to complain. I should suck it up and study
harder. Point taken. I welcome this addition to my Python vocabulary.
Dick
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