Underscore/Camelcase insensitivity

[Martijn Faassen]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
>> I present to you all PEP 3008: Underscore/Camelcase insensitivity.
>> Guido
>> is entirely tired of this debate and asked me to make a posting about
>> it
>> here so that comp.lang.python can decide.
> 
> Your pleas to end redundant debates would carry a little more weight if
> perhaps you weren't engaging in quite so much trolling.

I'm sorry you see this as trolling. Perhaps you need to readjust your sense 
of humor. I see my pleas to end redundant debates and my attempts at
humorous postings as a very much related activity. The first is an explicit
comment on the state of the newsgroup or thread, the second a more subtle 
and hopefully amusing comment. I'm not targetting anyone in particular,
by the way.

If however a consensus develops that what I do *is* trolling I'll cut it
out, of course. It would surprise me somewhat, as I've been doing this
for a while. It seems entirely unlikely to me that someone will take this
posting seriously -- I thought that was a requirement for successful
trolling. :)

Note that I'm working on a project where we use the underscore convention,
but I see that the rest of the (Zope) world is moving more and more towards
the camelCase convention. This week I was pondering making a mixin class which
helps us transition underscore to camelcase automatically. So, in a way
I was even serious here.

Regards,

Martijn