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Re: back with more issues

From Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: back with more issues
Date 2013-08-12 15:56 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 12/08/2013 06:54, Dave Angel wrote:
> [...]
>
> This function makes no sense to me.  A function should have three
> well-defined pieces:  what are its parameters, what does it do, what are
> its side-effects, and what does it return.

No! A function should have *four* well-defined pieces: what are its 
parameters, what does it do, what are its side-effects, what does it 
return, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope [etc.]

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back with more issues Kris Mesenbrink <krismesenbrink@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 20:33 -0700
  Re: back with more issues Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 00:21 -0400
    Re: back with more issues Kris Mesenbrink <krismesenbrink@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 21:35 -0700
      Re: back with more issues Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 00:51 -0400
  Re: back with more issues Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-12 05:54 +0000
    Re: back with more issues Kris Mesenbrink <krismesenbrink@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 23:31 -0700
      Re: back with more issues Kris Mesenbrink <krismesenbrink@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 23:57 -0700
      Re: back with more issues Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-12 07:11 +0000
    Re: back with more issues Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-08-12 15:56 +0100
      Re: back with more issues random832@fastmail.us - 2013-08-12 15:46 -0400
        Re: back with more issues Kris Mesenbrink <krismesenbrink@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 20:13 -0700
          Re: back with more issues MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-08-13 04:31 +0100
          Re: back with more issues Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-08-12 23:48 -0400
          Re: back with more issues Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-13 06:22 +0000

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