Something is rotten in Denmark...

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 04:02:22 EDT 2011


On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> The problem with Do What I Mean is that it so rarely Does What You Mean.
> At best it Does What Some Other Guy Imagined I'd Probably Mean In This
> Situation. Let's not go there.

+1

One of my biggest "threats" to my coworkers goes along the lines of
"Well, go ahead, but you have to document it for the internal wiki".
If you can't document something clearly, it's probably a bad idea.

Chris Angelico



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