"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "A.M. Kuchling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | [*] Anyone else keep wanting to write "byte type"? > > All the other builtin types I can think of are singular. So I think byte > should be also.
But a "byte" already has a standard definition in the realm of computer science and/or programming, and that definition is singular. No one will think that a byte is a container or a sequence (which is more or less what it is), they will think it is like a C 'char'. Bytes, on the other hand, at least lets people know from the first read that it is a container or sequence of some kind. Of what? Bytes. - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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
