On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 04:25:55 -0500, Oren Tirosh <oren-py-d@hishome.net> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:11:57PM +0000, Gareth McCaughan wrote: > > One drawback of allowing an arbitrary list of transformations > > is that it might not be completely clear what order they're done in. > > I conjecture that most people will have the same intuition > > as I do about this, namely that the first-listed transformation > > is applied first. (It would be less obvious if the list came > > before the name of the definiendum instead of after.) > > The modifier order [memoize, staticmethod] sounds more like the sentence > "foo is a memoized staticmethod" - at least in English it does. In French, > Hebrew and several other languages it's the other way around, but Python > is definitely English-oriented. Interesting. I read it more as: "Define a function, then memoize it and make it a static method". > So, do adjectives come before or after the noun in Dutch? :-) I don't think they do. :-) By the way, the fact that adjectives go before nouns in English is one reason why I don't read "def foo() [wibblify]" as if "wibblify" is an adjective. It can't be: it comes after the noun. PS. Court martial. C sharp. Letters patent. Bother. :-) -- g
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