Python handles globals badly.

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Wed Sep 9 15:22:37 EDT 2015


On 2015-09-09 18:59, William Ray Wing wrote:
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>> 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?)
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> Right.  Note that the Arabs, who DID invent zero, still count from one.
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No, they didn't invent zero.

> Bill
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