On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 03:25 am, Stefan Ram wrote: > FWIW, in my course notes, I have coined a special word for > this: > > A /prelate/ (German: "Prälat") is a callable value (object).
In English, prelate is a kind of priest, a senior clergyman and dignitary. I don't know whether German makes a practice of taking arbitrary verbs and adjectives and turning them into nouns, but English does, and so a callable object is just called a "callable". -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
