Re: variable declaration

From: Thomas Bartkus (tom_at_dtsam.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:39:14 -0600

"Alexander Zatvornitskiy"
<Alexander_Zatvornitskiy@p131.f3.n5025.z2.fidonet.org> wrote in message
news:MSGID_2=3A5025=2F3.131_4208c092@fidonet.org...
<snip>
> The worst thing is that in such calculations you often receive plausible
results.
<snip>

Exactly so!

An ordinary spelling error gets promoted to a logic error that is damn
difficult to detect, let alone trace! Before one even tries, it behooves
one to spell check his variables. An additional step that counters Python's
procedural simplicity.

"i" comes before "e" except after "c" OR whenever I make a typo!
Thomas Bartkus

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