Steve Howell a écrit : > --- Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 07:30 +0000, OKB (not >> okblacke) wrote: >>> Underscores are harder to type than any >> alphanumeric character. >> >> This is a discussion about underscores versus >> capital letters denoting >> the word boundaries in identifiers. How is an >> underscore harder to type >> than a capital letter? >> > > longer reach with the pinkie on American keyboards > > Slowly type the following two keywords, you'll see > what I mean: > > hop_count > hopCount > > Also note the number of characters. >
While this point was certainly discussed by those who wrote the PEP 8, I see hardly how it can be a valid argument. I used two keyboard maps in my life for development, fr_FR and fr_CH, in fr_CH both '.' and the pair '[', ']' are really more easy to type, and I think they appear at least as often as '_'. All in all, I never felt more productive with any keyboard, but, of course, I'm not a typist. Is typist ok ? It's the google's translation for "dactylo". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
