[Python-Dev] Naming conventions in Py3K

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Dec 30 12:34:22 CET 2005


Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> 
>>Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>>
>>>That would be cool.  If so, it would make sense for them to be all in
>>>lowercase.
>>
>>And rename None to null in the process :-)
> 
> 
> Is there a really good reason to do that?  It's not obvious to me.

That was mostly joking: it would sound more familiar to people from
Java and C#.

Recalling the <type 'bool'> introduction, I don't expect Guido can
agree to writing true and false instead of True and False; nobody
has ever proposed to write none (AFAIR).

Regards,
Martin


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