FEEDBACK WANTED: Type/class unification

[Guido van Rossum]

Bruce Sass <bsass at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:

> > > I think 'self' would be confusing.  I'd like to propose 'cls'.
> >
> > How about an English word or phrase in lieu of YATATL (yet another
> > terse acronym to learn)? Insofar as "self" derives from the notion of
> > an instance, we want somethign that derives from the notion of one's
> > classification.
> >
> > The GNU-based Roget's Thesaurus at
> > <http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html>
> > suggests for "class" :
> >
> > division, category, categorema[obs3], head, order, section;
> > department, subdepartment, province, domain.  kind, sort, genus,
> > species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept,
> > clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment;
> > feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.
> >
> > I like order, genus, and kind. On balance I guess "kind" seems best:
> > short, appropriate, and not a term I've noticed used in the corners of
> > the language I deal with.
> 
> How about "kit": short, easy to pronounce, unused, means...
> 
> 	A box for working implements. [1913 Webster]

Sigh.  I sympathize with the desire for a non-acronym, none of the
proposals work for me -- they are all neologisms in this context.
Ditto for "us" etc.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)