On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Talin wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: > > On 4/19/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 4/19/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I really don't like the name of Finite. When I read the name before > >>> knowing what it represented I really had no clue what it represented. > >>> In hindsight it makes sense, but it not immediately obvious. > >> I have been playing with Sizeable and Lengthy, but rejected both as > >> being too cute. Other suggestions? > >> > > > > Umm, Sized? =) Basically, no, I don't have a better suggestion. > > Hmmm. > > "Countable" or "Enumerable" come to mind. "Enumerable" might be > confusing, however, since some languages use that word to mean "Iterable". > > Other words that come to mind are "Dimension" and "Extent", although I'm > not sure how to turn them into adjectives.
"Bounded?" I was going to suggest that all reifications of "infinite sequences" in a running program are, in practice, finite but unbounded. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Whose kung-fu is the best? _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
