Call for signatories for J2

Paul McGuire ptmcg at austin.rr._bogus_.com
Thu Aug 26 05:39:30 EDT 2004


> (Interestingly, @ and 'per' are similar in that "12 @ $
>
>
ahem!

"12 @ $1.50" is shorthand for "12 at $1.50 per item" was what I meant to say
before I was interrupted!

"per" as a Latin word would help its adoption beyond English-speaking
regions.  It's meaning as "by" is consistent with the decorator notion that
foo() is modified _by_ the decorator methods before it is fully defined.

And Alex cites "per"s three-letter-ness, as a nice parallel to the
corresponding "def".

-- Paul
(now I'm really through)





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