On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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. I'm sorry, I have no recollection of such studies. (ABC used case differently anyway, so camelcase wasn't possible there -- and neither were underscores). Barry maybe referring to a more informal survey of feedback from Python users at the time. But I have no recollection of that either. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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