I'm also willing to change my mind, since I don't feel that strongly, and a number of people in favor of __pari__ seem to care a lot.
There is still a nonzero cost to deprecation, since people will have to change their code to update to the new convention. But I don't think there are that many users who are writing classes with a conversion to Pari. In summary, I'll withdraw my vote for (1). David On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> > wrote: > > On 2017-03-15 19:00, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > >> > >> The following statement from PEP8 is quite definitive: > >> > >> __double_leading_and_trailing_underscore__ : "magic" objects or > >> attributes that live in user-controlled namespaces. E.g. __init__ , > >> __import__ or __file__ . Never invent such names; only use them as > >> documented. > > > > > > That's true but I don't like that they don't say what you should use > > instead. I think the alternatives are even worse (see my initial post in > > this thread). > > > >> One minor "harm" that I can think of is that an uninitiated person may > >> misunderstand __pari__ as a new python magic attribute and look for it > >> in python manual :-) > > > > > > Let me mention again that such names have been invented in the past, like > > __array__ for NumPy. As far as I know, this is not at all controversial. > > I should add that in just the last 12 hours or so I changed my mind > about this after listening to Jeroen and Luca argue about it all day > and getting more context. > > I'm now +0.5 for __pari__, -0.0 for _pari_, whatever that means :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
