On Nov 13, 3:44 am, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > I stopped paying much attention to this thread a while ago, but > > you've got to admire the persistence of somebody who soldiers > > on even though Aahz, Fredrik Lund, and Steve Holden are all on > > the other side of the argument... > > Those people clearly know a great deal about Python, > and I respect them for that. However, that doesn't > necessarily make them authorities on programming > language terminology. > > If you're going to indulge in argument by authority, > you need to pick authorities that can be considered, > er, authoritative in the field concerned...
The authors of C# and Java can be considered authorities in the field concerned. So authoritative, that if they want to redefine existing terms, the masses must follow. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list