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

[Alex Martelli]

"David C. Ullrich" <ullrich at math.okstate.edu> wrote in message
news:3b2768b5.1425762 at nntp.sprynet.com...
    ...
> >I like orthogonality too.
    ...
> So just out of curiosity: Roughly what do you
> mean by "orthogonality" above?

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=orthogonal
suggests (after several other meanings):

"""
orthogonal

Mutually independent; well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to. Used in a
generalisation of its mathematical meaning to describe sets of primitives or
capabilities that, like a vector basis in geometry, span the entire
"capability space" of the system and are in some sense non-overlapping or
mutually independent.

In logic, the set of operators "not" and "or" is orthogonal, but the set
"nand", "or", and "not" is not (because any one of these can be expressed in
terms of the others).

Also used in comments on human discourse: "This may be orthogonal to the
discussion, but ..."

See also orthogonal instruction set.

[Jargon File]

(1994-12-21)

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2001 Denis Howe
"""


Alex