Style question -- plural of class name?
Neil Cerutti
neilc at norwich.edu
Thu May 9 11:14:17 EDT 2013
On 2013-05-08, Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 May 2013 16:20:48 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>> FooEntry is a class. How would you describe a list of these in a
>> docstring?
>>
>> "A list of FooEntries"
>>
>> "A list of FooEntrys"
>>
>> "A list of FooEntry's"
>>
>> "A list of FooEntry instances"
>>
>> The first one certainly sounds the best, but it seems wierd to change
>> the spelling of the class name to make it plural.
>
> I wouldn't use an apostrophe for pluralisation.
If there's no chance for confusion between a class named FooEntry
and another named FooEntries, then the first attempt seems best.
Pluralize a class name by following the usual rules, e.g.,
"strings" and "ints".
--
Neil Cerutti
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