From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-08-03T03:23:37+09:00
Subject: Re: doc patch: weakref.

On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:53 AM, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Hugh Sasse wrote:
>>> It's a method ending in ? so we know it is a boolean. You text has
>>> an implicit not in there i.e. "returns false if [...] garbage  
>>> collected,
>>> [returns true if it has not]"  which I think is less clear, because
>>> it is the opposite sense to what the method name says.
>>
>> I feel my description makes it most clear which states return  
>> which result.
>
> OK, what about:
>
>    # Returns true if the referenced object still exists, and
>    # false if it has been garbage collected.
>
> then?

I like it.

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