On 07/10/17 01:58, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > 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.
... which is, of course, exactly what „Prälat“ means. > > 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". > > > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list