Dave Opstad dave.opstad at monotypeimaging.com
Wed Feb 21 10:41:30 EST 2007

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In article <7xk5yc7pnj.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
 Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:

> [...]  However, Python seems to use the -ed suffix for the 
> non-mutating versions of these functions, e.g. sorted(list) instead 
> of the mutating list.sort().  

I've found this to be useful in my own Python libraries. For instance, a 
graphic object has move(), scale() etc. methods which mutate, and 
moved(), scaled() etc. methods which return new instances. It's 
English-specific, but still mnemonically useful.

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