[Python-3000] symbols?

Oleg Broytmann phd at mail2.phd.pp.ru
Tue Apr 11 08:47:08 CEST 2006


On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:58:47AM -0400, Kendall Clark wrote:
> Hmm. Tastes vary, obviously. I don't consider using ? to signal  
> boolean returning functions or methods to be random.

   They look ugly in expressions:

if python.has_punctuation?() and someone.uses_it_often?:
   print "Please don't do it!"

PS. .uses_it_often? is an attribute, not a function here...

Oleg.
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