Style - was Re: numpy.repeat TypeError: array cannot be safely cast to required type
Victoria G. Laidler
laidler at stsci.edu
Mon Nov 6 17:59:54 EST 2006
Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:10:20PM -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote:
>
>> Many thanks. In general, there is sense in the Python dictum about having one
>> way to do things. Although, in this case [length] vs length for one dimension
>> doesn't
>> exercise me greatly. I would be a bit more concerned about synonyms.
>>
>> Nobody has proposed using English yet - zeroes.
>>
>
> If Cambridge Advanced Learner's is happy with zeros, then so we should
> be:
>
> http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=92164&dict=CALD
>
> zero Show phonetics
> noun plural zeros or zeroes
> 1 [C or U] (the number) 0; nothing:
>
> I think the American-english speakers on the list outnumber the rest
> of us, so we'd better be careful :)
>
You know, I spell this wrong at least every other time I use it.
But of course, if we changed it to "zeroes", I'd -still- spell it wrong
every other time I used it.
Are synonyms really *always* evil????
wistfully,
Vicki Laidler
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