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Sun Jan 27 03:25:33 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076545.html

"Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:479B4B52.1060301 at gmail.com...
| Raymond Hettinger wrote:
| > A prefix would be better.
|
| I initially thought that, but found the suffix to be the least annoying
| of the ideas I had for denoting abstract base classes. To try and give
|| INumber
|| ABCNumber
| AbcNumber
| [etc]
| After those 3, I couldn't think of any other prefixes that were both
| short and likely to be an effective mnemonic for identifying ABC's -
| instead of "Abstract base class", etc.
...
| NumberABC

I *think* I would prefer to any of these either
ANumber or
aNumber,
which one can read as either an abbreviation of Abstract Number or simply a 
contraction of 'a Number' (a Real, an Integral, etc) taken to mean the 
abstraction.

| any convention that gets adopted is going to be by Guido's fiat and will
| need to suit his aesthetic sense rather than mine :)

One more possibility for him to consider.

tjr

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