'in' operator
Jeff Epler
jepler at inetnebr.com
Sat Feb 17 11:35:28 EST 2001
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:21:05 +0200, Pearu Peterson
<pearu at cens.ioc.ee> wrote:
>Me too, and because of the analogy:
>`an empty set is a subset of every set'
>`an empty string is a substring of every string'
But "in" doesn't test for a subset. For instance,
[1, 2] in [1, 2, 3, 4]
is 0.
However, I think that
"" in "yY"
and
0 in "yY"
should return 0, because for all items in "yY", none of them are
"" or 0. (This is compared to raising an error)
Jeff
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