[Barry A. Warsaw]
> It has been a while since I posted a copy of PEP 1 to the mailing
> lists and newsgroups.
Thanks for giving me this opportunity. There is a tiny detail that
bothers me:
> The format of the author entry should be
> address@dom.ain (Random J. User)
> if the email address is included, and just
> Random J. User
> if the address is not given.
This makes me jump fifteen years behind (or so, I do not remember times),
at the time of the great push so the Internet prefers:
Random J. User <address@dom.ain>
It is more reasonable to always give the real name, optionally followed by
an email, that to consider that the real name is a mere comment for the
email address. Oh, I know some hackers who praise themselves as login
names or dream having positronic brains :-), but most of us are humans
before anything else!
Could the PEP be reformulated, at least, for leaving the choice opened?
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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