On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:40:25 -0700, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > But for the other, I'm still at a loss, and that name is the most > important one. We can't call it steady because it isn't always. > highres or hires sounds awkward; try_monotonic or try_steady are even > more awkward. I looked in an online thesaurus and here's a list of > what it gave: > > Big Ben, alarm, chroniker, chronograph, chronometer, digital watch, > hourglass, metronome, pendulum, stopwatch, sundial, tattler, > tick-tock, ticker, timekeeper, timemarker, timepiece, timer, turnip, > watch > > I wonder if something with tick would work? (Even though it returns a float. > :-) > > If all else fails, I'd go with turnip.
We could call it "alice"[*]: sometimes it goes fast, sometimes it goes slow, sometimes it even goes backward, but it does try to tell you when you are late. --David [*] 'whiterabbit' would be more descriptive, but that's longer than turnip. _______________________________________________ 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
