Python 3 consistency proposal

gert gert.cuykens at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 20:58:20 EDT 2009


On Mar 25, 1:23 am, Steven D'Aprano
<ste... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:45:26 -0700, gert wrote:
> > Rename all built in classes with a capital letter example Str() Int()
> > Object()
>
> > Make () optional for a function definition class Test:
> >     pass
>
> > def test:
> >     pass
>
> > Any chance Guido would approve this :-)
>
> Unless you're volunteering to produce a patch, the chances are zero.
>
> If you *are* willing to do the work, the chances would still be pretty
> slim. Guido has just rejected a patch adding PEP 8 compliant aliases for
> types like datetime, so I think replacing built-ins have all-but zero
> chance. But if you want to pursue it, the right place is the python-ideas
> mailing list. Go for it ... but be prepared to justify the change, and
> not just "for consistency". As Guido has quoted before, "A foolish
> consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".

Its only foolish because it breaks everything, but it would not be
foolish on a syntax level.
Not that I can't live without, but I am just wondering why they did
not do this in the first place?




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