> He gives some examples of ways that programmers, even after being taught in intro classes not to use magic numbers, still litter their code with constants like 404. But I wish he’d tell Python programmers to stop designing APIs where you write string constants like “r--” and “bs” to denote that your scatterplot should use red dashes and blue squares.
Intriguing. I assume the author would prefer a stronger-typed alternative like explicit parameters and enums. Yet I wonder if having a small DSL-like syntax is actually the better for a scripting language. Most of these plots will be hacked together in a local notebook anyway.
What would be a better alternative to this terse DSL in such case?
Intriguing. I assume the author would prefer a stronger-typed alternative like explicit parameters and enums. Yet I wonder if having a small DSL-like syntax is actually the better for a scripting language. Most of these plots will be hacked together in a local notebook anyway.
What would be a better alternative to this terse DSL in such case?