On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:33 AM, <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > Ah, so at least there is a reason for it, I'm far from being a > mathematician though so it's not particularly obvious (for me anyway).
You're not alone; a lot of people find the terminology not intuitive. Even GvR has publicly lamented the choice of keyword. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list