two ideoms at one blow: line-reading and regexp-matching

Ralph Corderoy ralph at inputplus.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 11 06:15:59 EST 2002


Hi Gustavo,

> But you impact legibility:
> 
>   mo = findSomething.search(someString)
>   while mo:
> 	....
> 	....
> 	mo = findSomething.search(someString)
> 
> is much more understandable than:

No, it's atrocious because it duplicates code, giving a good chance
that one will be edited in the future and not the other.

Cheers,


Ralph.




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