Coding standard: Prefixing variables to indicate datatype

[Daniel Dittmar]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Daniel Dittmar" <daniel at dittmar.net> wrote in message
> 
>>Now that there are class methods, there's no longer the need to force
>>this into a instance method call. str.join (somelist [, joinstring])
>>does the job just fine.
> 
> Nope.
> str.join is *not* a class method.  (If it were, joiner.join(seq) would
> not work!).  While not identified as 'unbound', it acts like a normal
> instance methods.  So you have the parameter order backwards.

I meant it *should* be a class method with str being the class, join 
being the method and somelist and joinstring being the arguments. I was 
opposing the idea that there are only the alternatives somelist.join 
(joinstring) and joinstring.join (list). But of course if 
joinstring.join (somelist) is intuitive.

Daniel