Enumeration idioms: Values from different enumerations

Max rabkin at mweb[DOT]co[DOT]za
Fri Dec 23 16:51:22 EST 2005


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>>They certainly don't look much further from being integers than
>>booleans do. 
> 
> 
> You think?
> 
> hamburger, steak, fish, chicken, pizza
> 
> What meaning do you give to steak**fish? Should that meaning change if I
> happened to have written pizza first instead of last?

What meaning do you give to True**False?

> 
> The fact that they can be counted shouldn't fool you into thinking they
> are numbers. 
> 
> 
> 

--Max



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