Addressing the last element of a list

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2005-11-15, Bengt Richter schreef <bokr at oz.net>:
> On 15 Nov 2005 08:51:59 GMT, Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote:
>
>>Op 2005-11-14, Bengt Richter schreef <bokr at oz.net>:
> [...]
>>> You may be interested in reviewing
>>>
>>>     http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f96b496b6ef14e2/32d3539e928986b3
>>>
>>> before continuing this topic ;-)
>>
>>It is a rather long thread. You want to avoid this one becomes of
>>comparable length?
> Not necessarily. I just thought it might help in making new discussions
> of previously discussed ideas clearer faster ;-)

Well I hope you are right. But I must confess I skimmed a number of
articles, there were just too many, to read them all in such a short
times.

> Sometimes rehashing old topics seems just tedious, but sometimes someone
> has a hunch that they are struggling to express, and they haven't yet succeeded
> in communicating its essence. Then old discussions can sometimes serve
> like first drafts of a speech, and revisions can prevent repeat of misunderstandings
> that in the archived discussions one can see were inevitable.

> If the nascent idea comes out viable, we all benefit, and the tedium will have been
> worth it. If not, well, then at least some ideas will have clearer form, and
> the whole process will have been a social event that some will have enjoyed anyway ;-)

Well I certainly support that idea.

-- 
Antoon Pardon