Making the case for repeat

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:46:23 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> We factor code
> to eliminate redundancy, but that is not always a good idea with an API.
>  The goal for code factoring is to minimize redundancy. The goal for API
> design is having simple parts that are easily learned and can be readily
> combined (i.e. the notion of an iterator algebra).

Wonderfully said! That has articulated something which I only recently 
came to appreciate, but couldn't put into words.


-- 
Steven