In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: > > Paul McGuire schrieb: > >> I'm starting a new thread for this topic, so as not to hijack the one > >> started by Steve Howell's excellent post titled "ten small Python > >> programs". > >> > >> In that thread, there was a suggestion that these examples should > >> conform to PEP-8's style recommendations, including use of > >> lower_case_with_underscores style for function names. I raised some > >> questions about this suggestion, since I liked the names the way they > >> were, but as a result, part of the discussion has drifted into a > >> separate track about PEP-8, and naming styles. > > > > I prefer mixedCaseStyle, and I think that should be "standard", as this > > style is commonly > > used in all "major" languages , for example Java,C++,C#. > > It shortens the identifiers but leaves the meaning intact. > > The argument for under_score_names is usually that non-native speakers > can more easily find the word boundaries. Not being a non-native speaker > ;-) I can't verify that one, but it's pretty plausible given the current > amount of money spent on research on automatic word-segmentation for > languages like Chinese. =) > > STeVe I've gone through a few different flavors of composite name schemes over the years (starting with FORTRAN's 6 upper case character limit). When first exposed to camelCase, I thought it was horrible. Eventually, I came to like it. On the other hand, I'm convinced that words_with_underscores, is easier to read. This is especially true when abbreviations creep into variable names. It's certainly easier to parse ip_address as compared to IPAddress. Same with snmp_manager vs SNMPManager. I really like lisp's convention of using dashes instead of underscores, i.e. ip-address and snmp-manager. I think the only reason most languages don't use that is the parsing ambiguity, but if you required white space around all operators, then "ip-address" would unambiguously be a variable name and "ip - address" would be a subtraction expression. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
