terminological obscurity

Arthur ajsiegel at optonline.com
Fri May 21 21:07:05 EDT 2004


On Fri, 21 May 2004 13:30:23 -0700, Shalabh Chaturvedi
<shalabh at cafepy.com> wrote:

>I believe it is conceptual homogeneity and not type homogeneity that
>characterises the difference between lists and tuples.

"conceptual homogeneneity" defined  - as far as I see it - by
reference to whether a rational Python programmer would group the
objects together in a list.

A perfect tautology.

Which always seems to me to create more confusion, than clarification.

Art



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