I support PEP 326
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Thu Jan 22 22:41:15 EST 2004
In article <401091D5.EFA41F7 at alcyone.com>,
Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
> "David M. Cooke" wrote:
>
> > Or, expressing the idea that they're the ends of a number line:
> >
> > PosInf, NegInf
> > PosInfinity, NegInfinity
> > PositiveInfinity, NegativeInfinity
> >
> > If IEEE floating point was done correctly everywhere, I'd say make
> > them the corresponding floating-point constants (Inf+ and Inf-).
>
> The "if" conditional here is bad. Naming something "infinity" if it
> weren't the IEEE floating point constants as well would be seriously
> misleading.
>
> After all, this _isn't_ a number line since we're talking about
> comparing arbitrary objects.
>
> > Or,
> > FreakingHuge, FreakingHugeTheOtherWay
>
> Don't be silly; that latter one should be FreakingUnhuge :-).
You could name them Python and Perl. Then you could do stuff like:
for language in allLanguages:
if Perl < language < Python:
print language, "is more than Perl but less than Python"
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