[Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

[Michael Foord]

On 01/05/2010 00:08, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2010/4/30 Antoine Pitrou<solipsis at pitrou.net>:
>    
>> Jesse Noller<jnoller<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>>      
>>> Consider this a plaintitive -1 to any sort of rule-or-decision based
>>> on committee.
>>>
>>> I'd much rather a 2x4 to the forehead.
>>>        
>> Oops, sorry but what does "a 2x4 to the forehead" mean?
>> (and "plaintitive" by the way?)
>>      
> The former means being hit by a board and by the latter, he probably
> means "plaintive" meaning melancholy.
>
>    
And 2x4 refers to a board with cross-section of 4 inches x 2 inches; the 
inch being an obsolete unit of measure from the old British imperial 
system now defunct throughout the civilized world.

Michael

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