Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sun, 27 May 2007 10:20:49 -0300, Carsten Haese <carsten at uniqsys.com>  
escribió:

> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 07:30 +0000, OKB (not okblacke) wrote:
>>     	Underscores are harder to type than any alphanumeric character.
>
> This is a discussion about underscores versus capital letters denoting
> the word boundaries in identifiers. How is an underscore harder to type
> than a capital letter?

Underscores are not always easily available on non us-layout keyboards,  
like \ and @ and many other "special" characters. A language that requires  
more symbols than the 26 english letters has to make room somewhere -  
keyboards usually have "only" 102 keys (or 105 nowadays).
Back to the style, I think that mixedCaseIsEnough to  
determine_word_endings and looksBetter. alllowercase is hard to read.

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Gabriel Genellina