Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Neal Norwitz
wrote: Ben mentions this in the post, but it's a good reminder: comments on python-checkins are *not* personal. The goal is to make the code better and/or gain better understanding. We all make mistakes, better to correct them early before they become big problems..
And this reminder applies to reviewer *and* reviewees! (I know I've made this mistake in both roles. :-)
I still love the last entry from Raymond's school of hard knocks [1]: """do everything right (formatting, procedure, profiling, testing, etc) and watch the Timbot come along five minutes later and improve your code making it faster, clearer, more conformant, more elegant, and also gel neatly with the vaguaries of memory allocation, cache performance, and compilers you've never heard of.""" Cheers, Nick. [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-September/028725.html -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org