[Python-Dev] r87389 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/unittest.rst Lib/unittest/case.py Misc/NEWS (original) (raw)
Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Mon Dec 20 10:55:10 CET 2010
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Antoine Pitrou wrote:
For a non-native English speaker, 'a' and 'b' don't evoke 'after' and 'before' but simply the first two letters of the latin alphabet, and their ordering is therefore obvious with respect to function arguments.
It's not just non-native English speakers either. I too think of a, b as being first, second rather than after, before.
-- Steven
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