On 10 February 2005 14:23, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
If you're trying to avoid obscurity, why advocate point-free style?
I ask this question to be deliberately provocative; I'm not trying to single you out in particular. So, to everybody: What's so great about point-free style?
I completely agree. I find myself tending towards pointfull-style these days, perhaps because I'm getting lazy and find it easier to read code when lots of things have names. I use explicit function definitions and lambda bindings a lot more than I used to - at some point I figured out that the number of characters in my source code isn't the right target for optimisation :-) I don't think a general "things to avoid" section should be advocating not naming things... in fact I would advocate the reverse. Name as many things as possible, at least until you have a good feel for how much point-freeness is going to result in code that you can read again in 6 months time. Cheers, Simon