Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> writes: > Le 24/04/2022 à 16:09, David Kastrup a écrit : >> I think we had this discussion at one time, possibly resulting in making >> this have a unique style at least in documentation. > > > > The previous discussion I could find is > > https://codereview.appspot.com/6461098/ > > Which does not exactly suggest that a consistent rationale > was known at the time: you made the patch to "follow the CG", > Graham started by asking why the convention was like that, > and it appeared that he had put it himself in the CG ...
I didn't say that the reasons for arriving at that decision were super compelling. Just that we ended up with it. At some point of time there was a mixture. I know that translator names were a main motivation to have "word syntax" treat "-" and "_" similarly, to have code continue working even if it did not follow the "quote it" quasi-convention. -- David Kastrup
