Peter Astrand wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Paul Moore wrote:
Not sure this is pertinent but anyway: "any" and "all" are often used
as variable names. "all" especially often and then almost always as a
list of something. It would not be good to add "all" to the list of
words to watch out for. Also, "all" is usually thought of as a list of
Using "any" and "all" as variables hides the builtins, but doesn't
disallow their use elsewhere. Personally, though, I wouldn't use "any"
or "all" as variable names, so that's a style issue.
Even though you can use them as variables (and shadow the builtins), you will still get warnings from "pychecker". The code will also be harder to read: When you see "all" in the middle of some code, you don't know if it's referring to the builtin or a variable.
Personally, I think Python has too many builtins already.
to extend the naming pool, FWIW CL calls similar things EVERY and SOME.
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