On Aug 2, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was looking around the Objects directory and noticed that we have 
> enumobject.h/c with the enumobject structure for "enumerate" and "reversed". 
> This is somewhat confusing now with Lib/enum.py and will be doubly confusing 
> if we ever decide to have a C implementation of enums.
> 
> Any objections to renaming the files and the internal structure & static 
> functions with s/enum/enumerate/ ? This would more accurately reflect the use 
> of the code, and avoid confusion with enums. These structures/types are not 
> part of the stable ABI defined by PEP 384.


I wouldn't mind renaming enumobject.c/h to enumerateobject.c/h, but I think it 
is going overboard to rename all the internal structures and static functions.  
The latter is entirely unnecessary.  The C language itself has enums and there 
has never been any confusion with the enumerate iterator.


Raymond




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