<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">So you're saying we should prefer a future where it's an inconsistent mess? I agree with you that the C standard is ugly but it's.more important to have a standard than what that standard is. And we do have a strong standard today. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-1 from me</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">/ Anders </div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 4 Jan 2019, at 20:01, Abe Dillon <<a href="mailto:abedillon@gmail.com">abedillon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I keep coming back to <a href="https://vimeo.com/74316116">this great video</a> about coding style, and one point in particular rings true to me: ALL_CAPS_IS_OBNOXIOUS<br><br>It destroys the visual flow of code and for what? To signify a global, constant, or Enum? Is that really so important? I don't think so. I think the all caps style has out-lived its usefulness and needs to go the way of the dodo.<br><br>The last time I saw all caps used appropriately was in a YouTube comment where some guy was ranting about the communist Jewish banker conspiracy to control the world. In that case, all caps clearly communicated to me that the person was a frothing lunatic (thought find the idea of communist bankers intriguing).<div><br></div><div>Currently PEP-8 <a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#constants">prescribes all caps for constants</a> and uses the all cap variable "FILES" as an example in a <a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#when-to-use-trailing-commas">different section.</a> It also appears to be the defacto-standard for enums (based on the <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#creating-an-enum">documentation</a>)<br><br>I don't think it's necessary to make any breaking changes. Just pep-8 and (of less importance) spurious documentation examples.</div></div>
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