Newline (NuBe Question)

[avi.e.gross at gmail.com]

Isn't it fascinating that a meaningless piece of code used to illustrate
something can be analyzed as if it was full of malicious content?

Yes, my choice of names was as expected. The numbers chosen had no special
meaning other than choosing one number in each of three equivalence classes.

But, if you want me to add subtle meaning for generations to examine as it
it were a literary work, I offer this:

	Peter and Paul were studs who got Mary'd.

Can we now go back to our regularly scheduled talking about aspects of a
computer language?

P.S.
And just for history, Paul was really Noel Paul Stookey but Peter, Paul &
Mary sounded more like new testament characters and I think Noel signifies a
birth to Peter and Mary, sort of, which might have fit too unless it was a
computer program where a name with an umlaut was once not common. Another
interpretation is that Noel came from the Latin word for news. Be that as it
may, and I have no interest in this topic, in the future I may use the ever
popular names of Primus, Secundus and Tertius and get blamed for using
Latin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail.com at python.org> On
Behalf Of DL Neil via Python-list
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2023 4:58 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Newline (NuBe Question)

On 11/27/2023 12:48 AM, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 at 21:08, Michael F. Stemper via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 24/11/2023 21.45, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Grizz[l]y,
>>>
>>> I think the point is not about a sorted list or sorting in general It is
>>> about reasons why maintaining a data structure such as a list in a
program
>>> can be useful beyond printing things once. There are many possible
examples
>>> such as having a list of lists containing a record where the third item
is a
>>> GPA for the student and writing a little list comprehension that selects
a
>>> smaller list containing only students who are Magna Cum Laude or Summa
Cum
>>> Laude.
>>>
>>> studs = [
>>>     ["Peter", 82, 3.53],
>>>     ["Paul", 77, 2.83],
>>>     ["Mary", 103, 3.82]
>>> ]
>>
>> I've seen Mary, and she didn't look like a "stud" to me.
>>
> 
> That's what happens when you abbreviate "student" though :) Don't
> worry, there's far FAR worse around the place, and juvenile brains
> will always find things to snigger at, usually in mathematical
> libraries with "cumulative" functions.

The OP used an abbreviation: "studs". Why? Too lazy to type the full 
word? Abbreviation has full-meaning in the (narrow) domain? Was wanting 
something funny, or to snigger over?

Was the respondent sniggering? Perhaps he, like the OP, was also saving 
typing-time by making a joke, hoping that the OP would see the 
implicit-error in expecting others to understand that "studs" meant 
"students"?

Actually, Peter, Paul, and Mary were a band 
(https://www.peterpaulandmary.com/), so "studs" is even less expressive 
when the data also tells a story...

Working with "trainees", I avoid the word "student" even though some 
might see them as synonyms. In my mind, the abbreviation did not readily 
expand to the full word (mea culpa).

Accordingly, would not pass Code Review!
For the want of a few characters...
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail)

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