> > So you're saying we should prefer a future where it's an inconsistent mess?
No. And please don't straw man. It's a very annoying argumentative tactic. I prefer a future where all caps aren't used. I understand that the change I propose won't magically transport us there, but I don't think it justifies encouraging all caps. As it is, the mix of all caps, camel-case, and snake-case IS and inconsistent and visual mess. Discouraging all caps will only result in a diminishing occurrence of all caps. it's.more important to have a standard than what that standard is. And we > do have a strong standard today. I understand that there's a barrier to change, but there's also a circular logic to resisting change because adhering to a standard is good. How bad would it really be to remove the line about constants being all caps from PEP-8? On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 2:55 PM Anders Hovmöller <bo...@killingar.net> wrote: > 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 <https://vimeo.com/74316116> 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 > <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#constants> and uses the all > cap variable "FILES" as an example in a different section. > <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#when-to-use-trailing-commas> It > also appears to be the defacto-standard for enums (based on the > documentation > <https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#creating-an-enum>) > > 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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