On Wednesday 24 April 2002 18:13, David Abrahams wrote: ... > > > should be named numer(), just like iter() is short for iterator. If ... > Blick. Abbrevs suck. Plus I don't want to re-use the sucky name enum for > something related to what 'C' and C++ use it for. This proposal was for 'numer', not 'enum'. And, given a language that has a 'def' keyword, and built-ins called 'dict', 'iter', 'vars', 'bool', 'str', 'repr', etc (:-), the affermation "abbrevs suck" looks pretty peculiar to me. Note that a few of these are pretty new, too, so it's not a question of "legacy" -- clearly the designer _prefers_ to use abbreviations in certain places he deems suitable. Alex
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