12 years of Python and only at v2.2

[Brad Hards]

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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 06:58, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Greg Ewing fed this fish to the penguins on Wednesday 04 December 2002
>
> 06:03 pm:
> > That's still monotonic. ("Monotonic" doesn't mean
> > "regular", it just means "always going in the same
> > direction".)
>
>         "Monotonic" is, itself, a hard term to pin down... Out of three
> dictionaries in my possession, only the OED had any definitions that
> were not tied to the literal "single tone". [I would like to state that
> one of the other two dictionaries is a 4" thick unabridged, not the
> more common "college" editions]
You need a mathematics book. I used the word to indicate that version numbers 
normally increased with each change, with the underlying implication that the 
amount of change in the version number may not have any relationship with the 
amount of change in the code (which probably has even correlation with 
stability)

Strictly speaking, releases are not monotonic, because they are discrete 
points, not continuous functions, and IIRC, the formal definition is a limit 
function, which clearly won't work in this case.

Brad

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