Guido van Rossum added the comment: > I'm not sure I like the idea of names Rational and Fraction; the two > classes numbers.Rational and rational.Rational are quite different beasts, > and using two almost-synonyms for their names seems like a bad idea. > Is there some more descriptive name for numbers.Rational that might give a > hint of its ABC-ness?
I'd rather not change the Rational ABC's name -- it is the mathematically accepted term (Complex, Real, Rational, Integer, and then natural numbers I believe). I'd rather not add a suffix or prefix like A or Abc to the ABCs either. To be honest, we have a rather hodge-podge of mappings from numeric ABCs to concrete implementations: Complex/complex, Real/float, Rational/?, Integer/int. I think that, given that fraction is the *common* name for rationals (see wikipedia), it fits relatively well. We can introduce fractions without ever mentioning the ABCs and users will immediately know what they mean even if they haven't got more than grade school math. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1682> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
