On 22/06/06, Brian Hulley wrote:

1) Someone reading the code needs to do a lot of work to try to recover the original equation

That's what comments are for, I suppose.

2) Wouldn't an imperative loop, using the original equation directly, have made everything much simpler? 3) Therefore laziness has lead to obfuscated code.

In fact, according to your point 2, it is not the laziness that brought us here, but being functional. Just my 2 cents. Regards, Piotr Kalinowski -- Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes