"Josiah Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "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.
Okay, this pretty well convinces me. Opinion withdrawn. tjr _______________________________________________ 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
