On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bruce Leban wrote: > >> It is not a misfortune or even true that Python uses hyphen for minus. >> The name of the character used in Python is HYPHEN-MINUS. > > This is pure demagogy, name it HYPHEN-MINUS-TINYDASH if you like, > but what aspect of reality does it change apart of its name? > "Hyphen-minus" would make sense for mechanical type-writers. > So it is a hyphen, a character used for centuries before typewriters even > appeared, and used as such now in 99 percent of medium. > Just take some Python sources and count the amount of underscores > and minus operators. This will give you an image of how important > separators are compared to minus operator. > Don't forget also to include cases where variables are written without > any separator, but should do so. > >> I am extremely skeptical that a legitimate usability study would >> find that record-count is better than record_count. > > Oh come on, probably you also want study for emoticons as a separators?
If you want to. But a simple a-b test (or is that an a_b test?) of hyphens and underscores would be sufficient. For anecdotal evidence, I prefer to write git branch names with hyphens, eg "git checkout rosuav/process-check-run". It's not about the typing (tab completion means I don't have to type either form), it's about the way it looks. So there definitely is _some_ advantage here. I just don't think it's significant, not worth the hassle of changing things around. And this is still ASCII-only. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
