> On Aug 27, 2007, at 6:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I would like to see PEP 8 remove the "as necessary to improve >> readability" in the function and method naming conventions. That >> way methods like StringIO.getvalue() can be renamed to >> StringIO.get_value().
Gratuitous breakage -- for nothing. This is idiotic, pedantic, and counterproductive. (No offense intended, I'm talking about the suggestion, not the suggestor). Ask ten of your programmer friends to write down "result equals object dot get value" and see if more than one in ten uses an underscore (no stacking the deck with Cobol programmers). Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
