On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Eli Bressert <ebress...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's a good point regarding the range function names. But, I think > > the issue still stands on the readability of the ptp function. > > Regarding PEP20 it's stated that "readability counts." > > > > If you regard what ptp is supposed to replace, array.max() - > > array.min(), the aforementioned follows the PEP20 better as it is more > > readable. If valuerange() is not an acceptable name, maybe span()? > > Sure, it's probably more readable, and that would be the controlling > factor if this were a new function. But that's not really the > operative question here. Are the gains in readability worth the > nontrivial costs of deprecating and removing the old name? I, for one, > am generally not in favor of such deprecations. > That's not the only option though. I'm -1 on deprecation, but +0 on renaming and keeping ptp as an alias. The function name is really quite poor. Ralf
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