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

[Frank Swarbrick]

Roy Smith wrote:
> I really like lisp's convention of using dashes instead of underscores, 
> i.e. ip-address and snmp-manager.  I think the only reason most languages 
> don't use that is the parsing ambiguity, but if you required white space 
> around all operators, then "ip-address" would unambiguously be a variable 
> name and "ip - address" would be a subtraction expression.

Then you'd really love COBOL!

:-)

Frank
COBOL programmer for 10+ years