[Python-Dev] PEP 259: Omit printing newline after newline

Bengt Richter bokr at accessone.com
Thu Jun 14 13:19:05 EDT 2001


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:33:51 GMT, ullrich at math.okstate.edu (David C.
Ullrich) wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:25:25 GMT, bokr at accessone.com (Bengt Richter)
>wrote:
>
>>[...] In general, I'd prefer that a language
>>provide a clean way to create a solution to a problem,
>>rather than having a particular solution built in.
>>I like orthogonality too.
>
[...]
>So just out of curiosity: Roughly what do you
>mean by "orthogonality" above?
Roughly, zero dot products ;-)
That is, if you view program language feature space
as n dimensional, and writing code using a particular
feature as movement along a feature vector.

Well, roughly something like that. 8-<:^P




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