[Python-ideas] Idea for new multi-line triple quote literal
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Mon Jul 1 15:12:59 CEST 2013
On 01/07/13 12:49, nbv4 wrote:
> "dedent" is a weird word, maybe "unindent" would be better?
The de- prefix is a standard English prefix meaning removal, negation or reversal:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/de-
Neologism or not, I think that dedent is sufficiently understandable and widespread that there's no need to deprecate it in favour of "outdent". It's being used in the F# and Ruby communities, as well as Python:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dedent
https://github.com/cespare/ruby-dedent
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Steven
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