[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] hello, new dict addition for new eve ?

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On 30 December 2011 20:29, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
[...]
> You have mixed up some of the terminology.
[...]
> ---
>    def test_permutation(self):
>        """a + b = b + a """
>
> This is commutivity, which you had right earlier in the file:

You mean commutativity :)

[...]
>    def test_neutral(self):
>        """ a + neutral = a """
>
> Not exactly incorrect, but this is a test of the additive identify, which is
> usually called 'zero' rather than 'neutral'.

You mean additive identity (by the way, I think Julien used the word
'neutral' because in French we call it 'élément neutre')

>    def test_neutral_mul_scal(self):
>        """ 1 * a = a """
>
> while this tests the scalar multiplicative identify

You mean multiplicative identity :)

Nit-picklingly yours,

-- 
Arnaud