Tim Peters writes: > Regardless, Guido has already said "as" is DOA (Dead On Arrival) > (illustrating that it's also common enough in English to give a short > name before its long-winded meaning ;-) ).
The parens above are a gloss on a well-known acronym for those who have not encountered it before. Neologisms are usually written in the other order: "dead on arrival (DOA, for short)." ;-) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com