[Zope3-dev] naming issues: id vs name, delObject vs ?

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 10 May 2002 15:17:42 -0400


> "delete" and "remove" are one of those cases where the shades of
> meaning are different for everybody.  I think you can find cases where
> delete and remove are used interchangably, and other cases where they
> have subtly different meanings.

I guess it's like the fear that some Mac users used to have that
dragging a floppy into the trash would erase it?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)