On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:26:11 +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Naming something in the terms of its implementation details (in this > case recursion) is a classical WTF.
*If* that's true, it certainly doesn't seem to apply to real-world objects. Think about the exceptions: microwave oven vacuum cleaner oven fries electric car chain saw flintlock rifle air gun vulcanised rubber kerosene heater aluminium foil diamond saw gas stove wood stove four-wheel drive car incandescent light bulb electric razor unleaded petrol to mention only a few. Naming the thing after the implementation would often seem to be *good advice*, not bad. We often do care about implementations. You really do need to know whether the car you drive uses leaded or unleaded. Being able to swap implementations without changing the interface is an abstraction that doesn't apply all the time, in either code or real life. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
