> My point is that it'd be nice if we could come up with an exception name > which could be grokkable without requiring 1) Google, 2) relatively > high-level understanding of type theory.
How about SubstitutabilityError? > The point is broader, though -- when I get my turn in the time machine, > I'll lobby for replacing NameError with UndefinedVariable or something > similar (or more useful still). The former is confusing to novices, and > while it can be learned, that's yet another bit of learning which is, > IMO, unnecessary, even though it may be technically more correct. We did that for UnboundLocalError, which subclasses NameError. Perhaps we can rename NameError to UnboundVariableError (and add NameError as an alias for b/w compat). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
