So you're saying we should prefer a future where it's an inconsistent mess? I agree with you that the C standard is ugly but it's.more important to have a standard than what that standard is. And we do have a strong standard today.
-1 from me / Anders > On 4 Jan 2019, at 20:01, Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I keep coming back to this great video about coding style, and one point in > particular rings true to me: ALL_CAPS_IS_OBNOXIOUS > > It destroys the visual flow of code and for what? To signify a global, > constant, or Enum? Is that really so important? I don't think so. I think the > all caps style has out-lived its usefulness and needs to go the way of the > dodo. > > The last time I saw all caps used appropriately was in a YouTube comment > where some guy was ranting about the communist Jewish banker conspiracy to > control the world. In that case, all caps clearly communicated to me that the > person was a frothing lunatic (thought find the idea of communist bankers > intriguing). > > Currently PEP-8 prescribes all caps for constants and uses the all cap > variable "FILES" as an example in a different section. It also appears to be > the defacto-standard for enums (based on the documentation) > > I don't think it's necessary to make any breaking changes. Just pep-8 and (of > less importance) spurious documentation examples. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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