Style question -- plural of class name?

John Downs john.a.downs at gmail.com
Wed May 8 16:37:05 EDT 2013


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

> FooEntry is a class.  How would you describe a list of these in a
> docstring?
>
> "A list of FooEntries"
>
> "A list of FooEntrys"
>
> "A list of FooEntry's"
>
> "A list of FooEntry instances"
>
> The first one certainly sounds the best, but it seems wierd to change
> the spelling of the class name to make it plural.
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How about: "A list with elements of type FooEntry"?  I also like the last
one: "A list of FooEntry instances".
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