On 2014-03-14 16:41, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
* The mATrices mnemonic is cute.
I recommend dropping this mnemonic from the PEP. It has been pointed out that the mnemonic does not cross languages[1], and even to my Anglo ears is not especially evocative. [1] Python, like most programming languages, is unabashedly Anglocentric in its keywords, standard library and documentation, so some amount of Anglocentrism in new language features is unavoidable. My point is just that an Anglocentric mnemonic isn't really helping the argument for the PEP. If the PEP needs a mnemonic to survive, this is not going to cut it. If the PEP doesn't need a mnemonic, as I believe, it's best left out. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco