Even if not just for the autocompletion, it would be more explicit that it's not just a random string like you'd pass to print(), but it has a specific meaning. Something in PEP 20 about explicit and implicit ?
Autocompletion might be a good advantage, but 1) the IDE would need to know what to autocomplete it to, and you probably shouldn't special-case the stdlib like you'd need to with strings, and 2) enums -are- more explicit. When there's a distinct and limited set of options, they're just the tool for the job. (or at least, a much better tool for this job than to remember colors, which is used all over their documentation). Im naming auto-completion here as a solid reason, but when clean code itself can be considered a solid reason, I think that's probably the real reason. 2018-04-26 1:11 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme...@gmail.com>: > > > On 2018-04-25 12:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 02:13 Jacco van Dorp <j.van.d...@deonet.nl> wrote: >> >> ... Which is where the auto-completion comes in. ... > > > Designing the language with auto-complete in mind feels wrong to me. It > assumes a very sophisticated IDE and may lead to lazy design compromises. > > > You can tab-complete enums (in the REPL), but not strings. > Tab-complete is not an IDE thing, it's a CPython REPL thing. It seems > reasonable to design for it. > > Any IDE worth my time would support string autocompletion, anyway. ;) > > > --Guido > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
