PEP 285: Adding a bool type

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Apr 1 08:28:54 EST 2002


"Arthur Siegel" <ajs at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1017637982.13565.python-list at python.org...
> >>Inventing new, non-standard terminology in order to be >>"simpler"  is
> rarely helpful; it doesn't substantially help  >>newbies, and it only
serves
> to confuse people actually >>involved.
>
> >This is born out by experimental psychologists, e.g.
>
> Also interesting is group psychology.
>
> I was pillared on Edu-Sig for making this point.
>
I think the word you're looking for is "pilloried".

> Of course I was referencing Alice and Guido's Linux
> journal article - not chiming in support of his insight.
>
all-in-the-interests-of-english-education-ly y'rs  - steve







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