On 2/10/06, Mark Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10 Feb 2006, at 12:45, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > An alternative would be to call it "__discrete__", as that is the key > > characteristic of an indexing type - it consists of a sequence of discrete > > values that can be isomorphically mapped to the integers. > Another alternative: __as_ordinal__. Wikipedia describes ordinals as > "numbers used to denote the position in an ordered sequence" which seems a > pretty precise description of the intended result. The "as_" prefix also > captures the idea that this should be a lossless conversion.
Aren't ordinals generally assumed to be non-negative? The numbers used as slice or sequence indices can be negative! Also, I don't buy the reason for 'as'l I don't see how this word would require the conversion to be losless. The PEP continues to use __index__ and I'm happy with that. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
