Coding standard: Prefixing variables to indicate datatype

Jp Calderone exarkun at intarweb.us
Sat Jan 18 11:58:08 EST 2003


On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:33:39PM +0100, Daniel Dittmar wrote:
> 
> Now that there are class methods, there's no longer the need to force 
> this into a instance method call. str.join (somelist [, joinstring]) 
> does the job just fine.

  Sure, it would work, but *why*?  I don't see join as making any sense as a
class method.

  Jp

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