On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:29:40 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > I don't really care for or agree with Steven and Ben Finney's foolish > consistency. I already weighed it against the benefits of consistency, > and decided that this parameter was easily important enough to warrant > special treatment. It's actually a good thing for this parameter to > look different from other switches; it marks it as specially important.
It seems to me that a parameter hardly deserves to be called "specially important" if it is optional and the user can leave it out. "Specially unimportant" is probably a better description. At the end of the day, your claimed motivation for inventing this anti- mnemonic was, and I quote, "to make it as convenient as possible to enter the section name". If you honestly think that typing shift-2 is more convenient than typing -s then go right ahead and do what you like. No skin off my nose. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
