Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
The "-ify" or "-fy" suffix in English means "to make". For example, "amplify", "magnify", "terrify", etc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ify So heapify literally means "make into a heap". Not only is the name correct, but it is a better name for an in-place operation than either of the terms you give: * "build-heap" does not describe an in-place operation; * "make-heap" is ambiguous in whether it is in-place or not. But even if we agreed that the name needs to change to match text books (which text books?), since heapify is a public function, we cannot just change the name. We would have to keep the old name around for many, many years, possibly forever. ---------- nosy: +steven.daprano _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39634> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
