[Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343

Brett Cannon bcannon at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 18:48:45 CEST 2005


On 7/1/05, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Friday 01 July 2005 11:44, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>  > Resource managers.
> 
> Yeah, I was thinking that, but was somewhat ambivalent.  But I definately like
> it better than anything else proposed so far.
> 

I say we steal from the C++ and the RAII paradigm and go with RMUW
(Resource Management Using 'with').  No need to get cutesy and we
already have acronym overload anyway, so one more won't kill us.

-Brett


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