On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:47:28 -0400, Mel wrote: > Long variable names can lie; they share this ability with comments. The > one study** I've seen of newbie errors observed the #1 error being as > assumption that descriptive variable names could somehow replace > computation, e.g. that if you called a variable "total_sales", then > accessing it would get you a sales total, regardless of what you might > or might not write as computational statements.
I've seen newbies do that, but I had never put two-and-two together and realised *why* they do it. That's a great observation -- thank you for sharing it. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
