On Wed, Jul 8, 2020, 1:00 PM Paul Sokolovsky > Right. So, if someone would like to add something to this thread, I'd > humbly suggest to concentrate on the lack of, and need for, of > const-ness in the Python language core (in comparison to other languages > or not), and usecases it enables, and not on criteria for "popularness". >
I admit I do not really understand what gain dynamic languages get from constants. I pretty uniformly use a common convention of ALLCAPS for constant names (knowing they are not really const in Python or bash, where I tend to use them). I think that clarifies intent in an important way. But checking it feels like a job for linters, or perhaps for a future mypy or other type checker. I can easily imagine that a VM might gain speed with that information, but that alone does not feel like enough reason for a language change. >
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