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Re: Am I not seeing the Error?

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On 08/12/2013 12:56 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> I can't quite sort out the multiple quoting levels, but somebody said:
>>
>>>>> Programming like that is called trolling. A programmer that uses
>>>>> trolling is called a troll. A troll can also refer to such a line
>>>>> of code itself. My scripts contain a lot of trolls. It is easier
>>>>> for me to read trolls than "typical" coding styles.
>> Please tell me this is all just an elaborate joke.
> I was thinking something similar Roy.  Devyn, you may think you code
> differently, but you don't.  You have a half of dozen people trying to
> show you how your style causes confusion between what you think you
> are writing and what you actually coded.  There is plenty of room in
> coding for personal expression, but what you call 'trolling' is not
> that.  If you like semicolons, use another language that needs them.
> I think you think it is some version of premature optimization.  Since
> you are a novice at the language, stick with the standards, and learn
> to embrace them.  Ultimately standard coding styles has nothing to do
> with code optimization.  It has to do with readability.  Although this
> is a small example, you can see that if several people get involved
> debugging it, the first thing that gets in the way is your
> non-standard coding style.  If you want to code alone your whole life,
> do as you like.  But the time spent reading and fixing code in the
> lifetime of any useful software system is greater than the time spent
> creating the original code.
>> --
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>
>

I know using semicolons will not optimize the code, but it is actually 
easier for me to read. I can handle such code better than spacing it out.

DCJ

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Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 03:33 +0100
  Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-10 22:43 -0400
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 03:47 +0100
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 08:33 -0400
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 08:20 -0500
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-08-12 10:01 -0400
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 10:04 -0400
      Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-12 11:47 -0400
        Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 12:56 -0400
        Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 18:19 +0100
        Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 16:16 -0400
        Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 16:34 -0400
        Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-08-12 16:35 -0400
        Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-13 09:19 +0100
          Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-13 08:50 +0000
            Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 06:31 -0400
            Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 13:11 +0100
            Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-13 12:12 -0400
            Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 19:55 -0600
          Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-13 13:55 +0000
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 10:37 -0500
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 10:47 -0500
  Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-11 08:28 +0000
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-11 11:18 +0100
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-11 09:27 -0400

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