[Tutor] Maths: getting degrees from radians (or am I wrong?)
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Wed Sep 21 04:05:33 CEST 2005
John Fouhy wrote:
> On 21/09/05, R. Alan Monroe <amonroe at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>> >>> math.degrees(_) <--- in all my time on tutor
>>
>> I have never noticed
>> this underscore trick
>> before
>
>
> I'm not a big fan of it, actually. It smells of Perl and those opaque
> one-liners that make use of implicit functions implicitely setting
> implicit variables...
I'm actually not much of a fan either - it's too easy to lose what I wanted by doing another step, then it's too late. And I usually don't use it on tutor because I think it is a bit obscure. This time I wondered if anyone would notice :-)
Kent
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