On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:40:25 -0700, Guido van Rossum
But for the other, I'm still at a loss, and that name is the most important one. We can't call it steady because it isn't always. highres or hires sounds awkward; try_monotonic or try_steady are even more awkward. I looked in an online thesaurus and here's a list of what it gave:
Big Ben, alarm, chroniker, chronograph, chronometer, digital watch, hourglass, metronome, pendulum, stopwatch, sundial, tattler, tick-tock, ticker, timekeeper, timemarker, timepiece, timer, turnip, watch
I wonder if something with tick would work? (Even though it returns a float. :-)
If all else fails, I'd go with turnip.
We could call it "alice"[*]: sometimes it goes fast, sometimes it goes slow, sometimes it even goes backward, but it does try to tell you when you are late. --David [*] 'whiterabbit' would be more descriptive, but that's longer than turnip.