[yiyus]

> how is "X[y==1,0]" more readable in this case than something like "filterElements(arrayToFilter, arrayOfBools)"?

Just the same way that a[i] *= b[j] is more readable than a.IndexElement(firstIndex).MultiplyByFloat(b.IndexElement(secondIndex))

[marcus_holmes]

yeah, sorry, but I didn't understand the first one at all, and totally understood the second one. Your definition of "readable" and mine differ ;)

[yiyus]

I don't follow. You have been coding for 40 years and you do not understand a[i] *= b[j] at all but you understood the expression I made up?

[renox]

Bah, it's the same as Maths: notations 'compress' the formulas but at the cost of having to learn these notations..

[marcus_holmes]

yes, this. Completely.

Is that more readable or less?

[renox]

For who? Beginners or experts?

[FridgeSeal]

Experts. Optimising your whole notation for beginners is pre-emptively putting up a skill ceiling. Beginners stop being beginners (at which point they’ll outgrow the beginner oriented syntax) but experts will remain experts.

Instead, optimise for teaching/learning the skills better rather than capping everyone’s skills. The presence of a learning curve is not an inherently bad thing.

Edit: re-reading your previous comments, I think you and I are in furious agreement haha