Le Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:32:32 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> a écrit :
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
or the 'attribute' substitution everywhere makes sense?
No.
My strong history-based opinions ;-).
+1 to what Terry said.
"Members" is a historical relic that is best replaced by "attributes" or "data attributes" if we want to explicitly exclude methods for some reason. "Methods" is a subset of attributes that explicitly excludes data attributes.
While I know it is technically right, I find it a bit strange to refer to methods as "attributes". We're describing an API, not the inner working of the object model. Also, people just discovering Python will probably be a bit surprised if we start refer to methods as "attributes". FWIW, I tend to understand "members" as "methods + attributes", which makes it a nice term to use for that purpose. Regards Antoine.