[Mike Miller] > Another message here reminded me that the datetime classes are not named > DateTime like they should be.
There are a few strange conventions in programming that seem almost backwards. In prose, we capitalize proper nouns, but rarely class-type nouns. Bullwinkle is a moose, not bullwinkle is a Moose. It seems the built-ins like int, str, list, dict, etc. get it right, then it's reversed for everything else. [Mike Miller] > Why not rename them, PI and E too, with suitable > long-term deprecation period? > (As it looks like ALL_CAPS is here to stay.) There's a Java programming guideline at my workplace that you're supposed to put "final" in-front of pretty much everything because it supposedly makes code easier to reason about. I've since found that the Java community largely supports this idea <http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=23> (not just my company), which raises the question, "why not make everything default to 'final' and put 'var' or something in-front of the few outliers?". My default assumption for any variable not in the immediate scope is that it's intended to be read-only unless the code I'm reading modifies it. Maybe module-level variables and class-level variables should be all caps if they're NOT constant because then I'd want them to yell at me that they're a potential hazard. Anyway, I thought others might find that to be mildly interesting food for thought. Sorry for bumping this thread again... On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:59 PM Mike Miller <python-id...@mgmiller.net> wrote: > > On 1/30/19 6:07 PM, David Mertz wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 4:23 PM Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com > > <mailto:abedil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Consider thatmath.pi and math.e are constants that are not all caps, > have > > you ever been tempted to re-bind those variables? > > > > > > I generally use 'from math import pi as PI' because the lower case is > confusing > > and misnamed. > > > Another message here reminded me that the datetime classes are not named > DateTime like they should be. Why not rename them, PI and E too, with > suitable > long-term deprecation period? > > (As it looks like ALL_CAPS is here to stay.) > > -Mike > >
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