Avoiding local variable declarations?

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> writes:

> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:18:51 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:32:35 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>> 
>>> Not such illogical crap like
>>> ``a = a + 1`` which must be obviously false unless 1 is defined as the
>>> neutral element for the definition of ``+`` here.
>> 
>> I don't quite know what you mean by "neutral element". I think you mean
>> the identity element […]
>
> I knew I should have looked it up instead of "translating" it from my 
> mother tongue -- yes I ment "identity element".  Sorry for the confusion.
>

Neutral element is correct.  But maybe its use is limited to
mathematicians in the english-speaking word.

-- 
Arnaud