On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> There seems to be a persistent desire in this discussion to specify and > define these flaws out of existence, where this API really should instead be > embracing the flaws and classifying them. That seems to be precisely what Cameron is advocating. > I think it's better to learn the local jargon and try to apply it > consistently. If you search around the web for the phrase "monotonic > clock", it's applied in a sense closest to the one you mean on thousands and > thousands of web pages. But is "a sense" the *same* sense on all of those pages? If not, then some people are going to be upset by anything we label a "monotonic" clock, because it will suffer from some flaw that's unacceptable in their applications for "monotonic" clocks. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com