On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 16:43 -0400, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > To express this email in the positive form: > 1. Reserved words should be real words. > 2. The meaning of the word should be clear. > 3. "Put statements in positive form." (Strunk & White) > 4. The word should sound good.
As I've been following this thread I find that the word "extern" keeps coming to mind. It's debatable whether "extern" passes #1, although my dictionary has an entry for it. But more importantly, there seems to be fairly strong parallels between what we're discussing here and its meaning in C/C++ (i.e. the symbol is defined outside of the current scope). So I think "extern" easily passes #2 for C/C++ programmers, and I think others can probably guess that extern == external (my wife did, at least). I haven't seen this suggested yet so I thought I'd just throw it out there. Matt _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com