On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 10:10 AM Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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?
How do you propose, instead, for the constantness of something to be indicated? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
