[Python-ideas] AMEND PEP-8 TO DISCOURAGE ALL CAPS

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 18:02:38 EST 2019


On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 9:59 AM Abe Dillon <abedillon at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Do you not have/use syntax highlighting? If not, why not? There's a right and wrong tool for everything. In the case of visually differentiating various kinds of code entities, the IDE is the right tool, all caps is not.
>

All-caps is a signal to the human or the IDE that this is never going
to be mutated or rebound. How else do you convey that information? How
does the IDE know this doesn't ever get changed?

ChrisA


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