>From the virtual desk of Lowell Tackett
--- On Sat, 7/19/08, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Advice for my function, isPrime(n), please > To: "Python Tutor List" <tutor@python.org> > Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 8:23 AM > 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 > > Just a comment from the sidelines...this ongoing discourse, and its' humorous > diversions, has been a fun read-and made some good pedagogial points-in its' > own right. Always a good thing to never take ones' self too seriously, isn't > it?! Thanks for the <intelligent> wandering from strict tutorial protocol! > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
