[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review. (original) (raw)
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Sep 17 13:49:57 CEST 2009
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Peter Moody <peter hda3.com> writes:
the address with all of the hosts bits masked to zero is most commonly referred to as the network address. same as the address with all of the host bits set to one is called the broadcast address. calling it something like baseaddress or minaddress will cause quite a bit more confusion.
Quite a bit less IMO. I'm not a network specialist, but the "network address" of a network sounds quite vague to me, while things like "lower_bound", "first", "first_address", "firstip" are immediately understandable and non-ambiguous.
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