Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

Antoon Pardon antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be
Tue Apr 19 09:07:50 EDT 2016


Op 19-04-16 om 13:47 schreef Marko Rauhamaa:
> Prehistoric programming languages considered uppercase/lowercase
> differences insignificant variations. Most modern languages preserve the
> distinction and in fact invite us to make a difference between:
>> BLACK
> Black
> black
>> Why stop there?
>> We need a PEP to distinguish also between:
>> - typefaces (Times New Roman vs Garamond)
>> - weights (bold vs thin)
>> - serifs (with or without)
>> - sizes (8pt vs 11pt)
>> - colors (goldenrod vs maroon)

Well personnaly I would like the introduction of weights.
So that reserved keywords are in bold and identifiers are
thin.
With unicode we could use the mathematical bold letters for
reserved words.
-- 
Antoon Pardon


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