On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:25 PM, rh <richard_hubb...@lavabit.com> wrote: > To counter your question. 10 sec. poll for the name for the law that > states that people will discuss/argue the most over those things > having little or no significance.
You mean bikeshedding? Parkinson's Law of something-or-other... not the Law of Inverse Relevance, though the two do discuss the same sorts of things. And yet, trivial though it may seem, function naming in a permanent API is pretty important. Threads like this can be the difference between coherent and useful APIs and veritable piles of excrement. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list