Guido van Rossum wrote: > But for the other, I'm still at a loss, and that name is the most > important one. We can't call it steady because it isn't always. > highres or hires sounds awkward; try_monotonic or try_steady are even > more awkward. I looked in an online thesaurus and here's a list of > what it gave: "hires" is a real English word, the present tense verb for engaging the service or labour of someone or something in return for payment, as in "he hires a gardener to mow the lawn". Can we please eliminate it from consideration? It is driving me slowly crazy every time I see it used as an abbreviation for high resolution. > Big Ben, alarm, chroniker, chronograph, chronometer, digital watch, > hourglass, metronome, pendulum, stopwatch, sundial, tattler, > tick-tock, ticker, timekeeper, timemarker, timepiece, timer, turnip, > watch > > I wonder if something with tick would work? (Even though it returns a float. :-) > > If all else fails, I'd go with turnip. I can't tell if you are being serious or not. For the record, "turnip" in this sense is archaic slang for a thick pocket watch. -- Steven
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