On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Although personally I prefer the look of d as a prefix: > > dsin, dcos, dtan > > That's more obviously pronounced "d(egrees) sin" etc rather than "sined" > "tanned" etc.
Having it as a suffix does have one advantage. The math module would need a hyperbolic sine function which accepts an argument in; and then, like Charles Napier [1], Python would finally be able to say "I have sindh". ChrisA [1] Apocryphally, alas. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/