On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > I will say this: the original preference for underscore_names in PEP 8 was > spurred by user studies some of our early non-native English speaking users > conducted many years ago. We learned that it was more difficult for many of > them to parse mixedCase names than underscore_names. I'm afraid I probably no > longer have references to those studies, but the difference was pronounced, > IIRC, and I think it's easy to see why. Underscores can be scanned by the eye > as spaces, while I'd hypothesize that the brain has to do more work to read > mixedCase names.
Given Guido's background, I suspect these studies might have been done at CWI in the context of the ABC language. Skip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
