!wtf ellipsis

Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou tzot at sil-tec.gr
Fri Aug 13 19:19:41 EDT 2004


On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:54:24 +0200, rumours say that Jonas Kölker
<jonaskoelker at yahoo.com> might have written:

>what (the hell) is Ellipsis?
>what's it good for?

Peter provided a link answering your questions.  As a side note, I have
used Ellipsis instead of None as a very handy last item put in queues in
threaded programs (after all, "ellipsis" means "absence" or "lack" in
English :)  Thus I avoid creating dummy classes to mark the end of
data...
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