"Greg Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Guido van Rossum wrote: | | > Really? Don't you think it's pretty obvious that b.transform("gzip") | > compresses and b.untransform("gzip") decompresses? Or that | > b.transform("base64") generates base64 format? | | Well, maybe. I think the problem is that the word | "transform" is inherently direction-neutral, and it | only becomes obvious that you have a direction in | mind for it when you pair it with some invention | such as "untransform". | | Maybe it's not all that bad, but it just seems | like it should be possible to do better than picking | a very general word like "transform" and giving | it our own special meaning.
Would you prefer re_transform, which is English? _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
