variable naming...

Owen F. Ransen ransen_spam_me_not at nemo.it
Sat Apr 28 00:38:07 EDT 2001


On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:17:20 +0200, "Alex Martelli"
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:


>If your code is for your own use rather than for publication,
>and you find _whatever_ notation or naming convention to
>be useful to you, who's to say otherwise?

Yup.

>Among the reasons one might prefer to avoid it in
>Python (even if one liked it for C) is that a single
>reference (including named ones, such as variables
>and attributes) often can usefully take on different
>types -- 

Ah...a good reason at last...none of the "Microsoft
does it so we don't!" objections. :)

Thanks,

All the best

Owen


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