[Python-ideas] Module name [was Re: Pre-PEP: adding a statistics module to Python]

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:42:39 +1000,
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a
écrit :
> 
> The main reason we've switched to nesting things inside other
> namespaces is when a name is somewhat ambiguous on its own, or risks a
> name clash with a PyPI project.
> 
> concurrent.futures is so named to help avoid confusion with the
> finance industry notion of "futures"

Which is completely silly. Polysemy is a fact of life in any natural
language and disambiguation is done through context, not by being
extremely wordy like a Java programmer.

Regards

Antoine.