[Zope3-dev] Zope 3 as a reliable platform?!?

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 5, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 08:26, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> I think in the future, we should resist minor api tweaks just to
>> improve spelling slightly.
>
> I disagree,

OK, we disagree.

> if the API violates the style guide. The point of the style guide
> is that we have uniform naming. For example, formlib violates the  
> style guide
> completely. Unfortunately I did not look closer at it before the  
> inclusion in
> the core, otherwise I would have strongly argued against it until  
> those
> violations were fixed.
>
> I cannot remember things well. So uniform naming is very important  
> to me,
> because it allows me to remember less. Every time I am starting to  
> write UI
> code, I have to think: "Okay. I am going to use formlib. Crap, it is
> different than the rest. I need to use underscores. Okay." At the  
> end of the
> day, I am ending up opening form.py to look up things; yes, I have  
> not read
> the README yet.

On the subject of the style guide, I think that, given that Python  
has adopted
the underscore-naming scheme, we should do the same.  Just as with  
Python,
it would *not* be necessary to conform existing APIs to a new style.

Jim

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