[Python-Dev] \code or \constant in tex markup (original) (raw)
Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Thu May 10 15:27:34 CEST 2007
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On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Neal Norwitz wrote:
Which is correct?
\constant was introduced much more recently than \code (though it's not really new anymore). The intent for \constant when it was introduced was that it be used for names that were treated as constants in code (such as string.ascii_letters or doctest.REPORT_NDIFF), not syntactic literals like 3 or "abc".
At the time, None, True, and False were just named values in the builtin module. I don't think the support for None as a "real" constant should change the status of the value as "just another named constant" other than in the implementation details.
So I think \constant is right for all three; we just haven't gone back and changed all the older instances of \code{None}, \code{True}, and \code{False}. We've generally resisted that sort of blanket change, but consistency is valuable too. Perhaps it's time to make the change across the board.
-Fred
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