[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 279 revisited (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:02:27 +1200 (NZST)

Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>:

An arbitrary enumerate() function is clearly going to create numbers

But that's not clear to anyone who knows what the word "enumerate" really means, and isn't just guessing based on the fact that it has "num" in it.

There doesn't seem to be any single English word that captures all of what we mean without ambiguity. Maybe we should be making up a new word altogether, such as "numberize" or something.

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