[Python-ideas] Objectively Quantifying Readability

[Dan Sommers]

On Tue, 01 May 2018 10:42:53 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> - people are not good judges of readability;

WTF?  By definition, people are the *only* judge of readability.¹

I happen to be an excellent judge of whether a given block of code is
readable to me.

OTOH, if you mean is that I'm a bad judge of what makes code readable to
you, and that you're a bad judge of what makes code readable to me, then
I agree.  :-)

Dan

¹ Well, okay, compilers will tell you that your code is unreadable, but
they're known to be fairly pedantic.