[Tutor] Should this be a list comprehension or something?
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Thu Jan 27 11:05:11 CET 2005
> > functions with initial capital letters. In many languages, this
implies
> > a new type (like your Water class). so CombineWater should be
combineWater.
>
> Do you mean implies by the dominant coding conventions, or by
language
> syntax? (Indulging the curious pedant in me.)
Coding convention. Its like using UPPERCASE for constants.
If you see a name captalised it means is a class not a function.
Python doesn't care but it makes it more readable.
And its a convention that started in Smalltalk (I believe) but has
spread to most OO languages.
Alan G.
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