Clarity vs. code reuse/generality
Jean-Michel Pichavant
jeanmichel at sequans.com
Mon Jul 6 08:32:10 EDT 2009
kj wrote:
> I've rewritten it like this:
>
> sense = cmp(func(hi), func(lo))
> assert sense != 0, "func is not strictly monotonic in [lo, hi]"
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> kj
>
As already said before, unlike other languages, sense in english does
**not** mean direction. You should rewrite this part using a better
name. Wrong informations are far worse than no information at all.
JM
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