Coding standard: Prefixing variables to indicate datatype

Sun Jan 19 21:29:55 EST 2003

Jp Calderone wrote:

>   "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."  -rwe
> 
>   "a b c".split(" ") makes sense.  " ".join(("a", "b", "c")) does,
> too.

He wasn't talking about join, he was talking about split.  He was saying
if JOINER.join(SEQUENCE) returns JOINED, then maybe JOINED.split(JOINER)
should return SEQUENCE.

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