[Tutor] Good approach regarding classes attributes

[Brian van den Broek]

On 7 September 2014 21:01, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:

<snip>

> Let's use a concrete example: say that we'd like to make sure a
> Person's name is always capitalized.  We might try to enforce this
> capitalization property in the constructor.


Hi all,

<rant on>

I've just again experienced a new employer that tells my students my
name is 'Van Den Broek' when I tell them that it is 'van den Broek.'
This is the third time this week I've encountered this as a
programming example. Perhaps the use of the example is responsible for
the false belief amongst programmers that a surname always starts with
a captial letter. (Also delightful is the view that no name can
contain spaces.)

For the love of puppies, can people please stop using this example?!

</rant off>

(Apologies to Danny; as the other two cases I saw recently were in
books, it was easiest to lash out against this example.)

notVanDenly yours,

Brian vdB