[Python-Dev] PEP 418 glossary (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 14:40:14 CEST 2012

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

ClockMonotonic:  The characteristics expected of a monotonic clock in practice. Whose practice?  In C++, "monotonic" was defined as "mathematically monotonic", and rather than talk about "what's expected of a monotonic clock in practice," they chose to use a different term ("steady") for the clocks that (come closer to) DTRT. I think it would be best to use a different name.

We may as well stick with the POSIX terminology (noting cases where there are discrepancies with other uses of terms). For better or for worse, Python is a POSIX based language.

Regards, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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