Avoiding local variable declarations?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:27:46 -0200, Arnaud Delobelle  
<arnodel at googlemail.com> escribió:
> 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.

In Spanish I've seen "elemento neutro" and "elemento identidad" used  
interchangeably.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina