Python handles globals badly.

William Ray Wing wrw at mac.com
Wed Sep 9 13:59:53 EDT 2015


> On Sep 9, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
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> I think my favourite is the guy who claims that the reason natural languages
> all count from 1 is because the Romans failed to invent zero. (What about
> languages that didn't derive from Latin, say, Chinese?)

Right.  Note that the Arabs, who DID invent zero, still count from one.

Bill




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