Ethan Furman added the comment: On 01/09/2015 09:39 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Please don't add this to the glossary and don't start using "virtual" (it is > my favorite example of terminology gone wrong in C++ as well as in colloquial > language). The terminology "virtual sequence" is only used once, and probably > a holdover from the Python 2 times when the idea was to describe the > difference > between xrange and range. Just drop the word "virtual" please!
I think the word has an important implication (low memory usage) and keeping it (and adding it to the range docs) would be useful to somebody who was searching for such a thing and unfamiliar with how range was constructed... on the other hand, generators are very similar (although not full Sequences) and we don't use the word virtual with them... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23210> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
