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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:09:14 +1100
Subject: Re: lambdak: multi-line lambda implementation in native Python
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> I don't know which zen this is, but "Beauty is important".

How about:
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Readability counts.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

ChrisA