On 20 February 2018 at 08:33, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Hm, perhaps Integral is an adjective, just like Boolean? Though it's also > possible that it was simply a mistake. In general I don't like adding > aliases for different spellings -- it violates TOOWTDI. If we decide that > this really was a mistake we should go ahead and make Integer the > recommended way and define Integral as an alias for backwards compatibility.
FWIW, I had to run `dir(numbers)` while tinkering at the REPL based on this discussion, because I was surprised that "numbers.Integer" was giving me an attribute error. Checking PEP 3141 doesn't shed any light on the question either - while that cites Scheme as the origin of the numeric tower structure, the given reference at https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-reports/r5rs-html/r5rs_8.html#SEC50 uses "integer" rather than "integral". Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
