Style question -- plural of class name?
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Thu May 9 13:44:17 EDT 2013
On 2013-05-08 21:20, 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'm using services like Github more and more to talk about code, so I have taken
to adopting its inline markup for `code` when referring to identifiers. Thus, I
will often write
A list of `FooEntry`s
But I don't mind
A list of FooEntries
Hopefully there isn't also a `FooEntries` class.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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