Dennis Lee Bieber, 17.06.2012 02:46: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:25:29 -0400, Terry Reedy > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> Thank you for the correction. I was going by an old book (1996) he >> co-wrote that just had 'Rossum' on the spine. I guess that must have >> been done without consulting him and must have annoyed him. > > If ALL they had on the spine was "Rossum", that may have been > correct usage for a surname only reference. The "van", "von", "da" > prefixes sort of translate to "of the" and for a book spine "of the XYZ" > may be meaningless unless the given name is included, a la "ABC of the > XYZ"...
It's a bit like using "New York" as a surname, when you refer to that guy Jason who was born there, as in "Jason of New York". Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
