Re: OT snake_case

2015-10-26 Thread MRAB
On 2015-10-25 23:43, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 23/10/2015 17:53, MRAB wrote: I just discovered today that writing names in lowercase with underscores is sometimes called "snake case". Seems kind of apt for Python! :-) Apparently, it was coined in the Ruby community... So when I get around to f

Re: OT snake_case

2015-10-25 Thread MRAB
On 2015-10-25 23:23, Ben Finney wrote: MRAB writes: I just discovered today that writing names in lowercase with underscores is sometimes called "snake case". Seems kind of apt for Python! :-) Cute! Apparently, it was coined in the Ruby community... Do you have references for tracing th

Re: OT snake_case

2015-10-25 Thread Ben Finney
MRAB writes: > I just discovered today that writing names in lowercase with > underscores is sometimes called "snake case". > > Seems kind of apt for Python! :-) Cute! > Apparently, it was coined in the Ruby community... Do you have references for tracing the origin of that term? -- \

Re: OT snake_case

2015-10-25 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:53 PM, MRAB wrote: > I just discovered today that writing names in lowercase with > underscores is sometimes called "snake case". > > Seems kind of apt for Python! :-) > > Apparently, it was coined in the Ruby community... > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: OT snake_case

2015-10-25 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/10/2015 17:53, MRAB wrote: I just discovered today that writing names in lowercase with underscores is sometimes called "snake case". Seems kind of apt for Python! :-) Apparently, it was coined in the Ruby community... So when I get around to forking Python to produce 2.8 the name will