On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:19 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 01:41:27AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > page_count will usually be unambiguous. You might need total_pages to > > mean "not the current section", thus leaving the shorter one available > > for the narrower use. Obviously questions like this can't be answered > > without context, but at an absolute minimum, "number_of" can almost > > *always* be omitted. > > I disagree with that last bit. > > Of course we can replace "number_of" with its synonym "count", but we > can't typically just omit it. Does "pages" mean the number of pages or > the pages themselves? >
Fair point. However, in any context where "pages" could be a list of pages, you are unlikely to need a separate "pagecount", as it's just the length of the list. Maybe it's the number of pages you're _going_ to need, or something. But it's nearly impossible to judge without context. Maybe "almost always" was too strong, but in real-world contexts, I don't often need to specify that something is the "number of" something. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
