On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 09:02:37 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 29Jun2018 10:36, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >>On 06/28/2018 10:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>It isn't clear to me why FederalHoliday is an Enum, especially as the >>>API seems extremely baraque. >> >>Huh. I had to look that word up, and I still don't know what you meant >>exactly, although I suspect it wasn't complimentary. ;-) > > It tends to mean "weird", but perhaps a more nuanced phrasing might be > unusual and strange, and usually connotes some degree of over > complication. It might have helped if I spelled it correctly, sorry. It should not mean "weird or bizarre", although I've seen a couple of lesser-quality dictionaries give that as a meaning. Which is itself weird and bizarre :-) The more established meanings are: - literally, it refers to the Baroque style of art, music and architecture popular in Europe between (approximately) 1600 and 1750; - figuratively, it means to be highly ornate and elaborate, with strong connotations of being *excessively* complicated to the point of being convoluted. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/baroque http://www.dictionary.com/browse/baroque So not especially complimentary (sorry Ethan, but that was my first impression) but not *necessarily* a bad thing either. The Jargon File adjective that comes closest is probably gnarly: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gnarly.html but that's probably stronger with even worse connotations than baroque. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
