[Python-Dev] re: PEP 279 revisited

[Paul Prescod]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>...
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> I'm +/- 0 on this.  It saves a letter and may indeed suggest numbering
> more closely, but it's an even more obscure word than enumerate().

Is not obscurity a sort of virtue? If it hasn't been used in the
languages space then it has no mental baggage. Compare with "Big
endian", as obscure a reference as you'll find in computer science, I
think. Or "thunk": a made-up word.

 Paul Prescod