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  Re: your feedback to my first project please Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-10 20:53 -0500

#18797 — Re: your feedback to my first project please

On 1/10/2012 9:06 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:

> - I quite dislike your avg method which does more than averaging, it
> also inserts a value and removes another modifying the object in place.
> It could be very confusing for someone reading your code. Fortunately,
> you have documented it, that makes it acceptable. Why don't you make avg
> only averaging. Surely you can use the add method right before.

Or use a better name, like running_average or run_mean (if that is what 
it is doing).

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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