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Why appeal to authority here? Experienced, well-intentioned developers should able to have a discussion of the merits of a particular construct without having t
by quotemstr 10y ago
Why appeal to authority here? Experienced, well-intentioned developers should able to have a discussion of the merits of a particular construct without having to turn the discussion into a citation count contest.
FWIW, I'm firmly on the 5.0 side.
- chillacy 10y agoOhhh boy. The problem is when the guy on the float(5) side genuinely believes that this is better code style. At the end of the day you do have to appeal to some system, whether it be to the PEP, or to SOLID design principles, or even to "someone else thinks this is a good idea on stack overflow". Personally I like to go with "is accepted by the community" as opposed to "is accepted by most people in this room" or "Greg thinks it's beautiful".
- falsedan 10y agoIt's not appeal to authority, it's consider the point of view of a disinterested third-party that they may not be aware of and thus can gracefully accept your feedback without losing face.