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Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner

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Date Tue, 5 Apr 2011 08:45:02 +1000
Subject Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> Crazy thought: I wonder if Perl programmers have "multi
> line Perl" competitions where they laugh their heads off
> at how readable the code is, and how nobody in their
> right mind would ever write Perl code that way?-)

Ha!! Okay, now I have to explain to my fellow bus passengers what it
is that I just cracked up laughing at...

You know what? I don't think I can.

I do like readable code, but quite a few of my favorite language
features are the ones commonly (ab)used to make unreadable code. C's
?: operator, Pike's interpretation of || for defaults, Python's lambda
functions... all great ways to shorten your code, but so easily used
for evil.

I think I like things that can be used for evil.

ChrisA

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Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-03-29 14:00 -0500
  Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner gb <gb@cabiate.it> - 2011-04-04 22:09 +0200
    Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 07:46 +1000
      Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-04-05 10:16 +1200
        Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 08:45 +1000
        Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2011-04-04 15:46 -0700
      Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> - 2011-04-05 07:36 +0200

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