[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
> news:482CF57D.6010200 at canterbury.ac.nz...
> | Guido van Rossum wrote:
> |
> | > Really? Don't you think it's pretty obvious that b.transform("gzip")
> | > compresses and b.untransform("gzip") decompresses? Or that
> | > b.transform("base64") generates base64 format?
> |
> | Well, maybe. I think the problem is that the word
> | "transform" is inherently direction-neutral, and it
> | only becomes obvious that you have a direction in
> | mind for it when you pair it with some invention
> | such as "untransform".
> |
> | Maybe it's not all that bad, but it just seems
> | like it should be possible to do better than picking
> | a very general word like "transform" and giving
> | it our own special meaning.
>
> Would you prefer re_transform, which is English?

Yuck, no.

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