It didn't hit me until you in particular said it. This sort of scaffolding reminds me of how I write code. def foo(a,b,c): h = bar(a,b) + bar(b,c)

It didn't hit me until you in particular said it. This sort of scaffolding reminds me of how I write code. def foo(a,b,c): h = bar(a,b) + bar(b,c) if h > a + b + c: h = dothatotherthing(h,a,b,c) return h where neither bar, nor dothatotherthing are written yet. (clearly, they have better names than that)