Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>...
>> I'm +/- 0 on this. It saves a letter and may indeed suggest numbering
> more closely, but it's an even more obscure word than enumerate().
Is not obscurity a sort of virtue? If it hasn't been used in the
languages space then it has no mental baggage. Compare with "Big
endian", as obscure a reference as you'll find in computer science, I
think. Or "thunk": a made-up word.
Paul Prescod