Comment by TremendousJudge 5 years ago explicit is better than implicit 9 comments TremendousJudge Reply moron4hire 5 years ago 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. toss1 5 years ago 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). setgree 5 years ago 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 liveI 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. toss1 5 years ago Nice example of where it is lost in lower context environments.Most people probably just take it at face value, or read it as implied in the limitations of the medium.I passingly notice the discrepancy but disregard it as unimportant in this context.You seem to deeply notice the discrepancy and complain that it isn't fixed every time, preferring always verbose precision over brevity.In a live-in-person context, it'd be easily handled in seconds of conversation or just body language and intonation. That's all lost here. 2 replies → kazinator 5 years ago 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. another-dave 5 years ago Though you left your reasons why you think so implied ;)
moron4hire 5 years ago 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.
toss1 5 years ago 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). setgree 5 years ago 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 liveI 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. toss1 5 years ago Nice example of where it is lost in lower context environments.Most people probably just take it at face value, or read it as implied in the limitations of the medium.I passingly notice the discrepancy but disregard it as unimportant in this context.You seem to deeply notice the discrepancy and complain that it isn't fixed every time, preferring always verbose precision over brevity.In a live-in-person context, it'd be easily handled in seconds of conversation or just body language and intonation. That's all lost here. 2 replies →
setgree 5 years ago 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 liveI 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. toss1 5 years ago Nice example of where it is lost in lower context environments.Most people probably just take it at face value, or read it as implied in the limitations of the medium.I passingly notice the discrepancy but disregard it as unimportant in this context.You seem to deeply notice the discrepancy and complain that it isn't fixed every time, preferring always verbose precision over brevity.In a live-in-person context, it'd be easily handled in seconds of conversation or just body language and intonation. That's all lost here. 2 replies →
toss1 5 years ago Nice example of where it is lost in lower context environments.Most people probably just take it at face value, or read it as implied in the limitations of the medium.I passingly notice the discrepancy but disregard it as unimportant in this context.You seem to deeply notice the discrepancy and complain that it isn't fixed every time, preferring always verbose precision over brevity.In a live-in-person context, it'd be easily handled in seconds of conversation or just body language and intonation. That's all lost here. 2 replies →
kazinator 5 years ago 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.
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.
Nice example of where it is lost in lower context environments.
Most people probably just take it at face value, or read it as implied in the limitations of the medium.
I passingly notice the discrepancy but disregard it as unimportant in this context.
You seem to deeply notice the discrepancy and complain that it isn't fixed every time, preferring always verbose precision over brevity.
In a live-in-person context, it'd be easily handled in seconds of conversation or just body language and intonation. That's all lost here.
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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.
Though you left your reasons why you think so implied ;)