Comment by moron4hire

5 years ago

"That we know of" is implicit.

explicit is better than implicit

  • Jesus Christ, this Hyper Text Markup Language page served via the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over a Transmission Control Protocol connection can be so tiring sometimes.

  • Of course you want to explicitly initialize all your variables and specify contexts in a programming language.

    In a natural language, implicit and contextual cues are often more important (and can be lost in low bandwidth communication media like this).

    • An article can be as high-bandwidth as it needs to be to communicate clearly... When I read

      > He turns 190 years old this year, making him the world’s oldest tortoise to ever live

      I don't hear an implicit "known" in that. I hear a claim about Jonathan's being the oldest tortoise to ever live, and we have no idea if that's true.

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  • Smartly implemented, documented implicit with test cases and air-tight semantics beats irksomely verbose and repetitive explicit.

    Moving a return value into the EAX register yourself is more explicit; I don't see a lot of Python code doing that sort of thing.