Steven D'Aprano wrote: > That isn't 5.75e30 words, it is the number of possible haikus. There > aren't that many words in all human languages combined.
Doh! This is why _I'm_ not a computer scientist. I'm kinda slow. ;) > (Note however that there are languages like Finnish which allow you to > stick together words into a single "word" of indefinite length, sort of as > if we could say in English "therearelanguageswhichallowyou" to > "sticktogetherwordsintoasinglewordofindefinitelength". Such languages > might be said to have an infinite number of words, in some sense.) Imagine an agglutinating (sp?) programming language, heh! Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
