On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 5:41 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 06:18:20PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:54 AM Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis650@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a proposal to add two new methods, ``cutprefix`` and ``cutsuffix``, to the APIs of Python's various string objects.
The names should use "start" and "end" instead of "prefix" and "suffix", to reduce the jargon factor
Prefix and suffix aren't jargon. They teach those words to kids in primary school.
Why the concern over "jargon"? We happily talk about exception, metaclass, thread, process, CPU, gigabyte, async, ethernet, socket, hexadecimal, iterator, class, instance, HTTP, boolean, etc without blinking, but you're shying at prefix and suffix?
As a general rule, jargon from your OWN domain is easier to justify than jargon from some OTHER domain. (Though in this case, I agree that "prefix" and "suffix" shouldn't be a problem.) ChrisA