On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: > "James Mills" <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> writes: >> You do realize this is a model and not strictly a requirement. Quite >> a few things in Python are done merely by convention. >> Don't get caught up. > > But, if something is done by convention, then departing from the > convention is by definition unconventional. If you do something > unconventional in a program, it could be on purpose for a reason, or > it could be by accident indicating a bug. > > I don't understand why some folks spew such violent rhetoric against > the idea of augmenting Python with features to alert you automatically > when you depart from the convention, so that you can check that the > departure is actually what you wanted. A lot of the time, I find, the > departures are accidental and automated checks would save me > considerable debugging.
Amen to that! Finally someone with some sense and his/her head screwed on properly! :) Kudos to your thoughtful post :) cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
