From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-06-01T02:19:38+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting help needed

On 31.05.2008 16:45, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:11 AM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:

>> For the first RubyConf, we were going to have a "Code De-Obfuscation"
>> contest, since the idea of an obfuscation contest in Ruby seemed so
>> against the grain of what people loved about the language. We got as
>> far as getting some obfuscated contributions, ripe for de-obfuscation
>> (including one from Dave Thomas), but unfortunately the timing of that
>> conference -- October 2001 -- sapped some of our time and energy and
>> that contest was one of the things that fell by the wayside.
> 
> That sounds like a great idea.  I wish that there were some kind of
> anti-code-golf contest, where the objective was maximum
> clarity/expressiveness rather than compactness.  The problem is that
> it's impossible to measure the former objectively, compared to 32 vs.
> 33 character comparisons.

That's true.  I usually try to compact code in order to increase 
readability and often also efficiency because I do not find shortness a 
value in itself.  As always it's a question of balance.

Kind regards

	robert