Mostly generalizability and cleanness, not efficiency. Generalizability
and cleanness in the sense that the approach is not likely to go wrong if
the environment is not what it expects (e.g. what if 'x' is set to a number
before this sequence?). And that the approach can be used within a program
as well as in interactive mode.
But that's a long discussion....
-s
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 16:23, Bill Wood <william.wood3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 15:50 -0500, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> . . .
> > This is not the way I'd recommend doing things, but you can certainly
> > do it this way.
> . . .
> > But again, I DO NOT recommend working like this....
>
> Why not? Efficiency? Effectiveness? Clarity?
>
> --
> Bill Wood
>
>