On Sep 5, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Stephan Richter wrote:
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 08:26, Jim Fulton wrote:
I think in the future, we should resist minor api tweaks just to
improve spelling slightly.
I disagree,
OK, we disagree.
if the API violates the style guide. The point of the style guide
is that we have uniform naming. For example, formlib violates the
style guide
completely. Unfortunately I did not look closer at it before the
inclusion in
the core, otherwise I would have strongly argued against it until
those
violations were fixed.
I cannot remember things well. So uniform naming is very important
to me,
because it allows me to remember less. Every time I am starting to
write UI
code, I have to think: "Okay. I am going to use formlib. Crap, it is
different than the rest. I need to use underscores. Okay." At the
end of the
day, I am ending up opening form.py to look up things; yes, I have
not read
the README yet.
On the subject of the style guide, I think that, given that Python
has adopted
the underscore-naming scheme, we should do the same. Just as with
Python,
it would *not* be necessary to conform existing APIs to a new style.
Jim
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