Thomas is quite correct. "Deprecated" is the proper term. -g On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:42:29PM +0200, Thomas Wouters wrote: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:34:00PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > > "Depreciated" means that you should not use it in new code -- > > perhaps someday string.py will disappear, even though I doubt > > that. > > The common term for that is 'deprecated', not 'depreciated'. Really :) There > once was someone who posted a patch to linux-kernel to fix all those bloody > typos everyone made. Almost all instances of 'depreciated' where spelled > 'deprecated' ! <wink> > > Deprecate: > > 1.To express disapproval of; deplore. > 2.To belittle; depreciate. > > Deprecate \Dep"re*cate\: > To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the > removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to > disapprove of strongly. > > The difference is minor, but there really is one. Come on Eric, show us the > hackers dictionary on this ;) > > > > Besides, 'string.join' is a good compromise for the people who > > > don't like " ".join() > > > Tim Peters will have to take the blame for this one ;-) I don't > > find delimiter.join(sequence) awkward or funny -- using methods > > for this has added value: it defines an interface which other > > objects could support as well and thus makes your code polymorph. > > Indeed. And is there any harm in providing conveniency functions for those > that prefer more obvious code ? There is hardly any doubt what > > string.join(s, sep) > > does. And some people prefer it that way. They don't care that it's really > 'return sep.join(s)' behind their backs. > > -- > Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> > > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread! > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4