Your minor change is certainly an improvement. _The Elements of Style_ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style) is certainly a good text, but it's not even actually a style guide in the formal sense.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 5:26 PM Keara Berlin <kearaber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, this is a very small change, but I thought I would field it here > to see if anyone has suggestions or ideas. Instead of requiring that > comments be written in Strunk & White Standard English, PEP-8 should > require instead that English-language comments be clear and easily > understandable by other English speakers. This accomplishes the same goal > without alienating or putting up barriers for people (especially people of > color) whose native dialect of English is not Standard English. This change > is a simple way to correct that while maintaining the original intent of > the requirement. This change may even make the requirement more clear to > people who are not familiar with Strunk & White, since for programmers, the > main relevant aspect of that standard is "be clear and concise;" simply > saying that instead of referencing Strunk & White may communicate this more > effectively. > Here is the current line in PEP-8: "When writing English, follow Strunk > and White." > I propose changing this line to "When writing English, ensure that your > comments are clear and easily understandable to other English speakers." > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/AE2M7KOIQR37K3XSQW7FSV5KO4LMYHWX/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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