Python not that wierd

[Steve Lamb]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 23:03:38 +0200, Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
>matcher1=re.compile('foo').match
>matcher2=re.compile('^foo').search
>defined in the same place, and you can change them together if needed.

    And do something twice!?  ;)

>Original RQ did work in multiples of 5%, with 20-sided dice, but it
>was soon changed into 1%-granularity with 100-sided dice.  That was
>around 1977, or maybe 1978, I'm not sure.

    Well, I didn't mean round to the nearest 5%, I meant the nearest 1% which
happened to be 5% (4.8%).

>    dice = sets['wod']()

>but you were really pretty close!

    I love little tricks like that.

>OK.  A sum of arbitrary dice would no doubt be slightly awkward to handle
>anyway -- syntax is easy, but then you have to apply it.  Having more
>generality than is actually used is often fine, but simplicity must never
>be allowed to suffer for that...

    One could always try to add another directive which lets people add a
series of dice rolls together.  Hmmmm....

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