On 8/28/07, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > On the gripping hand, breaking getattr, getitem, setattr, setitem, > delattr and delitem without a *really* good reason would mean seriously > annoying a heck of a lot of people for no real gain. > Making an exception to the naming convention for builtins seams acceptable as it's just a small list of method names for someone to remember. The bigger issue I see is the numerous inconsistencies that exist in the standard library. I know when I was learning Python (8 years ago) I found these inconsistencies annoying. I also see that everyone I convince to use Python also has this issue for the first year or 2 as they learn to master the language.
At this point in time a change of names would be a pain for myself as I'm well aware of the names used in the standard library and will likely type them wrong in the begining if the change takes place. But I know it will only take a short time to get used to the new names so I see it as a small price to pay to shorten the learning curve for newbies. I'll even get over the pain of updating 300+ Kloc that I maintain. John _______________________________________________ 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
