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Re: Style question -- plural of class name?

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Date 2013-05-09 10:12 +1000
Subject Re: Style question -- plural of class name?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1469.1368058368.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> "A list of FooEntry's"

Only if you put another apostrophe in:

"A list of 'FooEntry's"

But the delimited style is almost never of use. I'd go for this only
if there were some sort of automated markup being applied - if the
word FooEntry were turned into a hyperlink or something.

ChrisA

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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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