On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:13:28 +0000, Lie Ryan wrote: > When people are fighting over things like `sense`, although sense may > not be strictly wrong dictionary-wise, it smells of something burning...
That would be my patience. I can't believe the direction this discussion has taken. Anybody sensible would be saying "Oh wow, I've just learned a new meaning to the word, that's great, I'm now less ignorant than I was a minute ago". But oh no, we mustn't use a standard meaning to a word, heaven forbid we disturb people's ignorance by teaching them something new. It's as simple as this: using `sense` as a variable name to record the sense of a function is not a code smell, any more than using `flag` to record a flag would be, or `sign` to record the sign of an object. If you don't know the appropriate meanings of the words sense, flag or sign, learn them, don't dumb down my language. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
