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

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:23:39 -0400

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:

The new type is a numerator but that is a mouthful so the built-in function should be named numer(), just like iter() is short for iterator. If people can learn and remember iter(), it should be just as easy to learn and remember numer(). They are spelled almost the same, they rhyme, they are short, etc. All the logic that lead to the selection of iter() should apply here.

Hrm. I'm not quite changing my vote yet, but numerator() might work; I don't like numer() because it looks like it's missing a "b". I'm also rethinking whether I should cast my vote for iterindexed().

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