for / while else doesn't make sense

Christopher Reimer christopher_reimer at icloud.com
Mon May 23 18:36:24 EDT 2016


> On May 23, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2016-05-23, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm not sure where ℝ comes into this in the first place. Existing
>>> Python numeric types only represent various subsets of ℚ (in the case
>>> of fractions.Fraction, the entirety of ℚ).
>> 
>> And of course I realized after sending that I forgot about complex
>> numbers. But even there Python merely represents 2-tuples of ℚ.
> 
> OK, admit it, now you're all just showing off the fact that you know
> how to type in those fancy symbols.

Those symbols are blowing my 8-bit ASCII brain. :)

Chris R.


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