On 27/06/2011 09:24, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Le Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:32:32 +1000,
Nick Coghlan<ncogh...@gmail.com> a écrit :
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
or the 'attribute' substitution everywhere makes sense?
No.
My strong history-based opinions ;-).
+1 to what Terry said.
"Members" is a historical relic that is best replaced by "attributes"
or "data attributes" if we want to explicitly exclude methods for some
reason. "Methods" is a subset of attributes that explicitly excludes
data attributes.
While I know it is technically right, I find it a bit strange to refer to
methods as "attributes". We're describing an API, not the inner working of
the object model. Also, people just discovering Python will probably be a
bit surprised if we start refer to methods as "attributes".
FWIW, I tend to understand "members" as "methods + attributes", which makes
it a nice term to use for that purpose.
That is my understanding / use of the terms as well.
Michael
Regards
Antoine.
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