On 7 September 2014 21:01, Danny Yoo <[email protected]> wrote: <snip>
> Let's use a concrete example: say that we'd like to make sure a > Person's name is always capitalized. We might try to enforce this > capitalization property in the constructor. Hi all, <rant on> I've just again experienced a new employer that tells my students my name is 'Van Den Broek' when I tell them that it is 'van den Broek.' This is the third time this week I've encountered this as a programming example. Perhaps the use of the example is responsible for the false belief amongst programmers that a surname always starts with a captial letter. (Also delightful is the view that no name can contain spaces.) For the love of puppies, can people please stop using this example?! </rant off> (Apologies to Danny; as the other two cases I saw recently were in books, it was easiest to lash out against this example.) notVanDenly yours, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
