Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)

[Steve Lamb]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:08:31 GMT, Ben Wolfson <rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org>
wrote:
>How is assigning what is rather clearly a number the type "number"
>arbitrary?

    Uh, because a number can be a sequence?  I thought that was rather
obvious.  You keep interchanging what Python defines as a sequence as what is
a sequence.  Python has defined that 1 is not a sequence even though if I put
down 1 on a blackboard, ask a classroom of people to identify that sequence,
they will say 1.  Just because Python doesn't recognize a sequence there
doesn't mean there isn't one there to be recognized.

>I read it, I just didn't see the point in the entire paragraph being there
>if you weren't making some implicit criticism of the current system.

    No, it was to point out that such "odd" behavior in moving from simple to
complex back to simple is to be /expected/.

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