Greg Ewing wrote: > Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > >>Like "autodict" could mean anything. > > > Everything is meaningless until you know something > about it. If you'd never seen Python before, > would you know what 'dict' meant? > > If I were seeing "defaultdict" for the first time, > I would need to look up the docs before I was > confident I knew exactly what it did -- as I've > mentioned before, my initial guess would have > been wrong. The same procedure would lead me to > an understanding of 'autodict' just as quickly. > > Maybe 'autodict' isn't the best term either -- > I'm open to suggestions. But my instincts still > tell me that 'defaultdict' is the best term > for something *else* that we might want to add > one day as well, so I'm just trying to make > sure we don't squander it lightly. > Given that the default entries behind the non-existent keys don't actually exist, something like "virtual_dict" might be appropriate.
Or "phantom_dict", or "ghost_dict". I agree that the naming of things is important. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com