[Edu-sig] re: Naming in Python

[ajsiegel at optonline.net]

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From: ajsiegel at optonline.net
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2005 2:55 pm
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] re: Naming in Python
> 
> as long as the things all have a method named "quack", and not
> caring what each thing is and what quack does in context for 
> any particular thing.
> 
> ...this being one way in which what I name something is to the essence
> of my code and why I am inclined to pay attention to names. And while
> I'm paying attention to names in this way anyway, I am inclined to 
> be 
> sensible in choosing them.


And far be it from me to steer clear of a controversy:

The convention in VB is, I believe, to name according to type:

dblNumber, for example.

which would be some evidence that type and naming are intuitatively 
related, and perhaps gives us some additional clue as to why the issue of typing raises such hackles, and carries such a sense of tinkering with
Python at its distinctive core.

Art