On 09/04/2015 12:25 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I made it up, in analogy to "classic classes" in Python 2. I did this > not as a euphemism, but to avoid confusion, since in the existing docs > "naive" is only ever applied to objects (meaning tzinfo-less) and I > wanted to have a term that couldn't confuse anyone into thinking we were > only talking about arithmetic of naive objects.
Thanks for the clarification; that's reasonable. I shouldn't have presumed a reason for the term. And, as others have pointed out, "naive arithmetic" is just as invented-here as "classic arithmetic" -- perhaps more meaningful to someone not already familiar with it, but also possibly leading them to the wrong meaning. Carl
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