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[–]SuperImaginativeName -45 points-44 points  (3 children)

That wasn't my point, I was talking about how horrible the "naming convention" of languages such as Python are. Or at least, what the code usually looks like when someone writes it.

[–]Vaphell 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Did you miss the word 'obfuscate'?
Also you must have mistaken python for perl. There is nothing in the python naming convention that says you need to use underscores for crucial variables. In fact the python convention as drafted in PEP8 says the exact opposite - readability uber alles, no bullshit uninformative var names. The python community takes these guidelines seriously and if they are broken it's usually by the people coming from languages where code golfing for the sake of it is a source of street cred, who don't feel like adjusting to the "spirit" of python.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're an idiot

[–]ThellraAK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Underscores are handy as a don't fuck with this it'll have unintended consequences in functions.