[Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343

[Michael Hudson]

On 3 Jul 2005, at 18:25, Josiah Carlson wrote:

> Just because not all cars are used as vehicles, does that mean that 
> cars
> are not vehicles?

No, but it means calling all vehicles "cars" is dumb.

> There may be cases where the object being managed is not a resource
> per-se, but that doesn't mean that the mechanism is misnamed as a
> 'resource manager'; it's just the most common use case that any of us
> have managed to think of (as of yet).

This is possible.  I just wanted to expand everyone's minds :)

Cheers,
mwh