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Fancy Sandwiches

Petition to rename Python's __init__ method to __boa__ so we can call them Boa constructors

@fancysandwiches In Lisp , a moderately common terminology is to distinguish named-argument and positional-argument constructors, by referring to the latter as "By Order of Argument" constructors

So, if you do things positionally, you've already got BOA constructors !

@tfb hell yeah, love it, definitely going to start using this term

@fancysandwiches Not until we get `__mifflin__` so we get "Dunder Mifflin" methods.

@brettcannon @fancysandwiches And the Python merch store would be "Dunder Wear" 👕

@fancysandwiches not a python user, but i will go to war to make this happen.

@fancysandwiches Even though Boas aren't Pythons? 🙈

I'll show myself out....