On Mar 25, 1:23 am, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:45:26 -0700, gert wrote: > > Rename all built in classes with a capital letter example Str() Int() > > Object() > > > Make () optional for a function definition class Test: > > pass > > > def test: > > pass > > > Any chance Guido would approve this :-) > > Unless you're volunteering to produce a patch, the chances are zero. > > If you *are* willing to do the work, the chances would still be pretty > slim. Guido has just rejected a patch adding PEP 8 compliant aliases for > types like datetime, so I think replacing built-ins have all-but zero > chance. But if you want to pursue it, the right place is the python-ideas > mailing list. Go for it ... but be prepared to justify the change, and > not just "for consistency". As Guido has quoted before, "A foolish > consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".
Its only foolish because it breaks everything, but it would not be foolish on a syntax level. Not that I can't live without, but I am just wondering why they did not do this in the first place? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
