On 2017-05-17 17:17, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2017-05-17 17:10, Daniel Krenn wrote: >> I find this perfectly fine. I personally would write "Return whether >> this lattice is contained in the other lattice", but I do not find any >> need to include ``self`` in the one-line description. > > Well, in general, sentences containing too many words like "this", > "that", "it", "the $thing", ... are hard to understand. Perhaps the > is_sublattice() example I gave might be acceptable, but I wouldn't push > it much further.
To clearify, I would never use "this" alone, but "this lattice" in the one-line description seems to be clear where it refers to. (...and I do not have a problem, if there is a "self" somewhere, but in general the rule should be not to use it (except if it helps to clearify)) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
