[Python-3000] Need help completing ABC pep

Talin talin at acm.org
Fri Apr 20 06:54:13 CEST 2007


Brett Cannon wrote:
> On 4/19/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On 4/19/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>>> I really don't like the name of Finite.  When I read the name before
>>> knowing what it represented I really had no clue what it represented.
>>> In hindsight it makes sense, but it not immediately obvious.
>> I have been playing with Sizeable and Lengthy, but rejected both as
>> being too cute. Other suggestions?
>>
> 
> Umm, Sized?  =)  Basically, no, I don't have a better suggestion.

Hmmm.

"Countable" or "Enumerable" come to mind. "Enumerable" might be 
confusing, however, since some languages use that word to mean "Iterable".

Other words that come to mind are "Dimension" and "Extent", although I'm 
not sure how to turn them into adjectives.

-- Talin



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