No Thoughts about Everything

[Dang Griffith]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:57:30 -0700, "Dave Brueck"
<dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote:

>Arthur wrote:
>> >class Foo:
>> >  BAR = 10
>> >
>> >Voila! BAR is now a "class constant" - shared among all instances of the
>class
>> >Foo (in theory it's not a constant, but in practice it is :) ).
>> >
>> >HTH,
>> >Dave
>> >
>>
>> But not 'final'.
>>  I am only anticipating a response.
>>
>> IMO - if I am understanidng the issues correctly - it is a perfectly
>> adequate solution.  Simple to get across to beginners..
>>
>> The issue of making the constant 'final' is a production programming
>> issue.  And whether Python does or does not need it is not an issue
>> relative to teaching beginners.  The fact that production programming
>> concerns are introduced  at that stage of the game is, I think, where
>> many who would otherwise have an intellectual intererst in programming
>> fall of the wagon.  Wanting to understand programming and wanting to
>> be a production programmer can be very different things.
>
>True, but IMO this particular issue is invalid as a "production programming
>concern" as well - it doesn't prevent any problems that actually occur in
>practice, or if it does, you have bigger problems on your hands. It falls into
>the same bucket of concerns as "our programmers are untrained monkeys and/or
>are seeking to destroy our company from the inside".
>
+1 on this.  If the code has gotten to production, and someone is
changing (or trying to and silently failing) a final/constant value,
something seems a little non-production about it.  What's the Wiki
term?  CodeSmell?
    --dang