[Datetime-SIG] Timeline arithmetic?

[Guido van Rossum]

I made it up, in analogy to "classic classes" in Python 2. I did this not
as a euphemism, but to avoid confusion, since in the existing docs "naive"
is only ever applied to objects (meaning tzinfo-less) and I wanted to have
a term that couldn't confuse anyone into thinking we were only talking
about arithmetic of naive objects.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:

> On 09/04/2015 12:11 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> > Keep in mind that the standard library should not only support "casual
> > users", but also those who will write a "period
> > recurrence library" for those "casual users."  This is where classic
> > arithmetic is indispensable.
>
> Oh, I'm well aware. But naive arithmetic is always available - on naive
> datetimes.
>
> Btw, I have a minor objection to the term "classic arithmetic." It's a
> made-up term from this mailing list, and I don't think it describes a
> real distinct thing, it's just a euphemism for "naive arithmetic."
>
> I'm not sure why the euphemism arose; I _think_ it arose because it
> sounds wrong to say that aware datetimes perform naive arithmetic. I
> think that sounds wrong to roughly the same extent that it is wrong, so
> I don't see any point in using a made-up euphemism to hide it :-)
>
> Carl
>
>
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