Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is that VPython "vectors" are in effect flat 3 element Numeric arrays, > and Numeric ararys can be constructed with Float64 specified as the > datatype. (wonder if that speciufication is a "declaration", and if > so whether that would indicate some conflict between Python's ideology > (Alex's version) and that of its defacto standard numerical processing > library - but I digress) .
That ``speciufication'' (sic) is no more ``a "declaration"'' than any other parameter you can pass to a constructor (or any other factory callable). I find it hard to believe that this can be less than totally, entirely, and utterly obvious to anybody with a 3-digits IQ. Trying to subdivide the issue into sub-issues that I hope will be pretty obvious even for most 2-digits IQs...: I can pass parameters when I call something -- do you think ``that's a declaration''?! Some of the calls I perform build and return new objects -- do you REALLY think ``that's a declaration''?! Obviously, the parameters I pass will normally affect the results of my calls -- do you TRULY, SERIOUSLKY think ``that's a declaration''?! *WHAT ON EARTH* could *POSSIBLY* make you "wonder" if any of these aspects make a perfectly ordinary executable statement into what's instead ``a declaration''?!?! Please clarify if you were making a lame joke without smilies, are utterly confused about what "declaration" *MEANS*, or what other folly prompted you to this astounding remark, thanks. Having found out how to build a lasting killfile, I'd like to see if using it liberally on people who appear to post here just to provoke flamewars, rather than to offer and receive help, and participate in interesting discussion, can make the newsgroup decently usable to me again. It's a pity that any newbie reading the group will be confused and damaged by tons of unchallenged idiocies posted there by large number of fools, but, ah well, I can't fix that, obviously -- I can just hope and trust that the fools' karma suffers in proportion to the stupid harm they inflict. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
