PEP scepticism

[Carsten Geckeler]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, phil hunt wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:26:08 -0700, stevencooper at isomedia.com <stevencooper at isomedia.com> wrote:
> >
> >Keystroke reduction saves the original programmer time.
>
> True.
>
> > But it costs
> >other people more time when they read the code.
>
> Really?
>
> Is this:
>
>    self.total[player] += s
>
> any harder to understand than this:
>
>    self.total[player] = self.total[player] + s
>
> I don't think so.

It is harder to understand, when the statements do different things.

Cheers, Carsten
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Carsten Geckeler