[Python-Dev] Organization of ABC modules (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Jan 27 03:25:33 CET 2008

"Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote in message news:479B4B52.1060301 at gmail.com... | Raymond Hettinger wrote: | > A prefix would be better. || I initially thought that, but found the suffix to be the least annoying | of the ideas I had for denoting abstract base classes. To try and give || INumber || ABCNumber | AbcNumber | [etc] | After those 3, I couldn't think of any other prefixes that were both | short and likely to be an effective mnemonic for identifying ABC's - | instead of "Abstract base class", etc. ... | NumberABC

I think I would prefer to any of these either ANumber or aNumber, which one can read as either an abbreviation of Abstract Number or simply a contraction of 'a Number' (a Real, an Integral, etc) taken to mean the abstraction.

| any convention that gets adopted is going to be by Guido's fiat and will | need to suit his aesthetic sense rather than mine :)

One more possibility for him to consider.

tjr

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