On 07/01/2013 03:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
"dedent" is a weird word, maybe "unindent" would be better?
The de- prefix is a standard English prefix meaning removal, negation or reversal:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/de-
Neologism or not, I think that dedent is sufficiently understandable and widespread that there's no need to deprecate it in favour of "outdent". It's being used in the F# and Ruby communities, as well as Python:
Hi all, this is my first message here :) I use Python since almost 7 years, and I discovered textwrap.dedent() right now, by following this thread. So in my case if yesterday I had seen there was a method str.dedent(), I should have looked at the documentation to know its meaning, but if I had seen str.unindent(), I shouldn't have looked at the doc at all, because the meaning appears to me very clear. Maybe this comes either from my poor English or from my lacks in Python (or both...), but maybe not, because looking for "unindent indentation" , "dedent indentation" or "deindent indentation" on Google, we can see people use the word "unindent" and not dedent or deindent. + 1 for unindent() http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unindent -- Marco Buttu INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari Loc. Poggio dei Pini, Strada 54 - 09012 Capoterra (CA) - Italy Phone: +39 070 71180255 Email: mbuttu@oa-cagliari.inaf.it