[Python-3000] Stackable Blocks (original) (raw)

Crutcher Dunnavant crutcher at gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 07:44:36 CEST 2006

On 4/27/06, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

"Crutcher Dunnavant" <crutcher at gmail.com> wrote in message news:d49fe110604271909i2b4b068aq3230021f4abca524 at mail.gmail.com... > I don't really care how it gets spelled. In the current system, I > have to break the context spec up on multiple lines, I consider that a plus. It is part of Python's basic indented statement structure, which makes it easy to read. Also, it is possibly more common to have more that one statement in outer context. >despite the fact that we have list comprehension semantics. The problem and danger with lcs is that they can be used to turn perfectly readable code into something much less readable. They are useful for compact expressions that can be easily comprehended in one reading, but can be pushed too far.

Of course they can be pushed to far, any programming construct can be pushed to far

such as: very deep: nesting: because: it makes me: a better person

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