On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Anders Hovmöller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I see it all the time in JavaScript, where ES2015 introduced a new >> syntax {name} equivalent to {"name":name} - people will deliberately >> change their variable names to match the desired object keys. So >> saying "forcing" is an exaggeration, but a very slight one. > > Do you have an opinion or feeling about if those synchronizations are for > good, neutral or evil?
Often neutral, sometimes definitely evil. Pretty much never good. That said, my analysis is skewed towards the times when (as an instructor) I am asked to assist - the times when a student has run into trouble. But even compensating for that, I would say that the balance still tips towards the bad. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
