Language change (was RE: iterators (was: python-dev summary))

[Michael Hudson]

Grant Griffin <not.this at seebelow.org> writes:

> If that were the _only_ reason, it might not be so great.  But
> you're talking to the guy who actually _likes_ "self.", as a
> replacement for the "m_" notation he uses in C++ to mark class
> member variables.  (True, I sometimes wake up screaming in the
> middle of the night about those extra three characters Python's
> convention makes me type.  But then I tell myself that I could have
> used "m." if I had really wanted to. <wink>)

I still have the mental scars from trying to understand code that
named *local* variables m_blah.  Explicit *is* better than implicit.

Cheers,
M.

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