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Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 10:42:44 +1000
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: "Steven D'Aprano" <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>
Subject: Re: Style question -- plural of class name?
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On 09May2013 00:02, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
| On Wed, 08 May 2013 16:20:48 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
| > "A list of FooEntry's"
| 
| "Here come's an S! Quick, jam on an apostrophe!"
| 
| This is called the grocer's apostrophe, and is universally held in 
| contempt no matter what variant of English you write in. Don't do this.
| 
| The only acceptable use of an apostrophe to make a plural is if the thing 
| being pluralised is a single letter. E.g. one a, two a's.

Frankly, not even then for me. I spell that "one A, two As".

| > "A list of FooEntry instances"
| 
| This is also acceptable, although a little wordy. Do you write "a list of 
| strings" or "a list of str instances"?

How about "a FooEntry list"?
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

Yes Officer, yes Officer, I will Officer. Thank you.