Re: A Question About Directive
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- Subject: [mg111288] Re: A Question About Directive
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kjm at KevinMcCann.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:38:30 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <i2eadd$q1l$1@smc.vnet.net> <i2gju8$aa$1@smc.vnet.net>
However, is Directive[Red,AbsoluteThickness[2]] really more readable
than {{Red,AbsoluteThickness[2]}}? I don't think so. Again, this seems
like very little, even if you prefer the former, for a new function to do.
Kevin
AES wrote:
> In article <i2eadd$q1l$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
> Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
>
>> Fewer keystrokes is not the sole metric for simplicity! Code readability
>> is another.
>
> Agreed!
>
> Wasn't APL the classic example of a language with near-minimum
> keystrokes, near-maximum unreadability? -- such that APL programs were
> sometimes characterized as "write once, read never".
>