Raymond Hettinger wrote: >> 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).
Sure, but given the rise of Java, how many of them will spell it with a capital 'V'? ;) On the one hand, I really like consistency in my programming languages. On the other hand, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Later, Blake. _______________________________________________ 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
