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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Style question -- plural of class name? |
| Date | 2013-05-08 19:45 -0400 |
| Organization | > Bestiaria Support Staff < |
| References | <kmec30$d12$1@panix2.panix.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.1466.1368056720.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 8 May 2013 16:20:48 -0400, roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) declaimed the
following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> 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.
A Folly of FooEntry
<G>
(though if one wants to consider "a school of fish", let the class be
its own plural...)
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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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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