[Python-Dev] Re: Adding Optik to the standard library

[Steven Lott]

Or a literate programming tool that separates these concerns
nicely.  


--- Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw):
> 
> > I'm probably somewhat influenced too by
> > my early C++ days when we adopted a one class per .h file
> (and one
> > class implementation per .cc file).  IIRC, Objective-C also
> encouraged
> > this granularity of organization.
> 
> Deciding how to split things up into files is not such
> a big issue in C-related languages, because file
> organisation is not tied to naming. You can change
> your mind about it without having to change any of
> the code which refers to the affected items.
> 
> In Python, one is encouraged to put more thought into
> the matter, because it affects how things are named.
> One-class-per-module is convenient for editing, but
> it introduces an extra unneeded level into the
> naming hierarchy.
> 
> It's unfortunate that editing convenience and naming
> convenience seem to be in conflict in Python. Maybe
> a folding editor is the answer...
> 
> Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
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