On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 9:57:08 PM UTC+5:30, Ethan Furman wrote: > In order to avoid unnecessary code churn (the fix itself is quite simple), > the maintainer of the collections module > wants to know if anybody has actually been affected by these inconsistencies, > and if so, whether it was a minor > inconvenience, or a compelling use-case. > > So, if this has bitten you, now is the time to speak up! :)
Not in direct answer to your specific question, but Counter generally. In studying (somewhat theoretically) the general world of collection data structures we see - sets -- neither order nor repetition - bags -- no order, repetition significant - lists -- both order and repetition Sometimes 'bag' is called 'multiset' However counter is a weird non-standard name that overloads an already overloaded term -- 'Counter' has a very standard meaning in programming and in hardware design. Yes changing the name is too code-churn causing. But a synonym Bag (or multiset) for Counter would be a pleasant addition for me. Calling a bag as counter is inappropriate for an analogous reason to why calling a dictionary as a 'hash' is inappropriate -- it confuses an implementation detail for fundamental semantics. -------- PS. I probably wont participate in this discussion hereafter because off-net for 2 weeks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
