In article <4f8ff38c$0$1381$4fafb...@reader1.news.tin.it>, Kiuhnm <kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it> wrote:
> I don't like when a community imposes style on a programmer. For > instance, many told me that I shouldn't use camelCase and I should > adhere to PEP8. > Well, that's not me. I write my code the way I like it and if that is > frowned upon by some "standardizing" community, so be it. > I want to retain my freedom of expression. Freedom of expression is fine, until you have to work in a big group. The more everybody uses the same style, the easier it is for everybody to understand everybody else's code. There's another nice thing about PEP-8, or at least about the concept of an official global style. I've been in groups where a huge amount of time has been wasted arguing about style. In my current gig, when it came time to decide on a style, the conversation went something like one person suggesting we just use PEP-8 and everybody else nodding in agreement. In 2 minutes, we saved many person-months of arguing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list