Why we don't use underbars

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 09:42, Sune Foldager <cryo at cyanite.org> wrote:
> You can't be serious. Anyway, if underscore style is so important (and
> I admit it's more important in languages like python where you get no
> help from anyone than your brain), then why doesn't someone go through
> the code and remove all underscores?  death to the underscores!!

Because there's a non-zero cost to changing variable names after
they've been released etc.

Cheers,

Dirkjan