[OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 21:04:58 EST 2015


On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> And there are underspecified rules too. What is the plural of octopus? No
> fair looking it up in the dictionary.

Standard and well-known piece of trivia, and there are several
options. "Octopodes" is one of the most rigorously formal, but
"octopuses" is perfectly acceptable. "Octopi" is technically
incorrect, as the -us ending does not derive from the Latin.

ChrisA



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