"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 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 _______________________________________________ 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
