Decorators

[Arthur]

On 8 Aug 2004 04:16:09 -0700, danb_83 at yahoo.com (Dan Bishop) wrote:

>Arthur <ajsiegel at optonline.com> wrote in message news:<u93bh0p8plvilk6veou5i1jq9o12b1pajs at 4ax.com>...
>> On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:40:47 -0400, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>...
>> I am a great believer in (motivated ) folks capacity to learn new
>> things.  And the existence of synonyms is not news to anyone. So no,
>> nobody motivated to learn new things will be stopped in their tracks
>> by @ in a new context
>
>I agree.  
>
>> (anymore than anyone motivated to learn new
>> things things would - given an explanation - be stopped in their
>> tracks by 1/2 = 0 ).
>
>I never had a problem with 1/2 == 0; I was already used to it from C, C++, and Java.
>
>But I did get stopped in my tracks the time a function that contained a line like
>
>   mean = sum(seq) / len(seq)
>
>failed because the list happened not to contain any floats.

Not to get off on it.

But you should be aware that I am 100% in agreement with the good
arguments related to the this issue, and 100% against the bad ones.



;)


Art