On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "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?
Yuck, no. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
