Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>: > Hm, no. 'element' for a loop control variable seems too long (I'd be > happy with 'x' but Greg Wilson used 'element'). However I like > 'element' as the argument name because it can be used as a keyword > argument and then it's better spelled out in full. I think Greg > Wilson used 'item' most of the time; I prefer to be consistent and say > 'element' all the time since that's the accepted set terminology. Briefly reverting to type as a logician, Eric applauds. Sometimes I tell you not to sweat what the my ex-colleagues will think, but this is a case in which using mathemtically-correct terminology will *not* obscure the difference between stateless/mathematical reasoning and stateful/programming reasoning, and is therefore a good idea. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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