Style question -- plural of class name?

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From	roy@panix.com (Roy Smith)
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Subject	Style question -- plural of class name?
Date	8 May 2013 16:20:48 -0400
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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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Style question -- plural of class name? roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-05-08 16:20 -0400
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-08 15:33 -0500
    Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-09 00:13 +0000
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? John Downs <john.a.downs@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 16:37 -0400
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 14:45 -0600
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 22:40 +0000
    Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-09 15:14 +0000
      Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-05-09 19:43 +0300
        Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-09 17:28 +0000
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-08 19:45 -0400
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-09 00:02 +0000
    Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-05-09 10:42 +1000
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 10:12 +1000
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-08 20:38 -0400
    Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2013-05-09 12:21 +0200
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 18:44 +0100

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