On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:58:35 -0600, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:26:16 +1100 in comp.lang.python, Steven > D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:38:56 -0600, Dave Hansen wrote: >> >>> The latter, IMHO. Especially variable names. Consider i vs. ì vs. í >>> vs. î vs. ï vs. ... >> >>Agreed, but that's the programmer's fault for choosing stupid variable >>names. (One character names are almost always a bad idea. Names which can >>be easily misread are always a bad idea.) Consider how easy it is to > > I wasn't necessarily expecting single-character names. Indeed, the > different between i and ì is easier to see than the difference > between, say, long_variable_name and long_varìable_name. For me, > anyway.
Sure. But that's no worse than pxfoobrtnamer and pxfoobtrnamer. I'm not saying that adding more characters to the mix won't increase the opportunity to pick bad names. But this isn't a new problem, it is an old problem. >>shoot yourself in the foot with plain ASCII: >> >> >>l1 = 0 >>l2 = 4 >>... >>pages of code >>... >>assert 11 + l2 = 4 > > You've shot yourself twice, there. Deliberately so. The question is, in real code without the assert, should the result of the addition be 4, 12, 15 or 23? -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
