Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Bicking wrote: > > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> It doesn't matter. Many large projects are adopting the camelCase > >> convention, either by choice or by accident. I did a brief review of > >> Zope 3 and Chandler, and while neither is consistent, camelCase > >> prevails (Chandler also has a lot of CapWords method names, wihch > >> suggests they didn't get this from Java -- maybe from C++?). > > > > Everything that touches wx seems to adopt CapWords method names -- in > > part (hopefully) or in whole. Wx's API comes from Windows, and the > > Microsoft method conventions. > > Bad, that. While the Windows API names once made sense when they referred to > standalone functions, not methods, they now look ugly in wx or .NET.
In regards to naming conventions, I find that CapWords are easier for me to read and remember as a native speaker of english. I've heard statements from non-native english speakers that CapWords are hard to read and/or understand, but in the realm of wxPython, changing literally thousands of CapWords references to lower_underscore during wrapping, along with the hundreds of thousands of references in just a few of the larger wxPython projects is a bit out of line. Or even convincing the hundreds of other packages which use CapWords or lower_underscore to change how their naming conventions work is going to be a tough fight. Personally, I'm of the opinion that as long as a module or package uses consistant naming semantics, whether it is CapWords, camelCase, or lower_underscore (all of which beat lowerwithoutspaces), then users of that module or package should be able to cope. Yeah, consistancy cross-packages would be nice, heck consistancy in the standard library would be nice, but changing the naming in the standard library for a purity argument, I think, is a red herring. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
