Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Mar 15 23:45:25 CET 2012

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On 3/15/2012 5:27 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Matt Joiner<anacrolix at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> +1. I now prefer time.monotonic(), no flags.
>
> Am I alone thinking that an adjective is an odd choice for a function
> name?

I would normally agree, but in this case, it is a function of a module 
whose short name names what the adjective is modifying. I expect that 
this will normally be called with the module name.

> I think monotonic_clock or monotonic_time would be a better option.

time.monotonic_time seems redundant.

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Terry Jan Reedy

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