On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:40:34PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: > I don't think "once" is a bad name, but we shouldn't kid > ourselves that it will be intuitive or discoverable to > anyone who isn't familiar with Eiffel.
I'm not particularly wedded to "once" specifically, but honestly I think that it is silly to say that you have to be familiar with Eiffel to recognise the connection between running a function once and the word "once". https://davidwalsh.name/javascript-once Are JS devs know for their familiarity with Eiffel? :-) At least two other Javascript libraries, Underscore and Rambda, call this function "once": https://stackoverflow.com/a/12713611 JQuery calls a related function "one", although the functional semantics are not quite the same as we're discussing: https://api.jquery.com/one/ Coming back to Python, here's someone who calls their version "run_once": https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50904087/run-a-function-only-once-during-runtime-in-python -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XEVP2KLYXDA7VMT2P3RQQ3Q4WAWRDRTS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
