On 2015-10-26 18:45, Sven R. Kunze wrote: > On 26.10.2015 16:22, Ethan Furman wrote: >> On 10/23/2015 08:20 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>> My own objection isn't to allowing "fR" or "fbR", it's to >>> allowing the uppercase "F". >>> >>> I also don't understand why we can't say "if 'f' is part of a >>> string prefix, it must be first". >> >> Sometimes order matters, and sometimes it does not. If the order >> does not have an impact on the final code, it does not matter, and >> making us have to remember an order that does not matter is a >> waste. > > Order that matters? You must be kidding. That would turn different > types of string extremely hard to understand because semantics > differ. > > That is, btw., one reason, why I favor a fixed order (alphabetically > or something). Easy to remember and no way to misinterpret it. > In Python 2, how often have you seen prefix "ur" rather than "ru"? I always used "ur". How often is alphabetical order used in the prefixes? If the order isn't alphabetical, then it's going to be some order that's harder to remember, so I agree with Ethan here.
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