On 2015-12-03, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > Who came up with the word 'display' and what does it have going for > it that I have missed? Right now I think its chief virtue is that > it is a meaningless noun. (But not meaningless enough, as I > associate displays with output, not construction).
In a recent discussion it seemed like people mainly use it because they don't like using "literal" for things other than single token constants. In most other languages' contexts the equivalent thing would be called a literal. > I think that > > 6.2.4 Constructing lists, sets and dictionaries > > would be a much more useful title, and > > 6.2.4 Constructing lists, sets and dictionaries -- explicitly or through > the use of comprehensions I don't like the idea of calling it "explicit construction". Explicit construction to me means the actual use of a call to the constructor function. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
