Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:18:51 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:32:35 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: >> >>> Not such illogical crap like >>> ``a = a + 1`` which must be obviously false unless 1 is defined as the >>> neutral element for the definition of ``+`` here. >> >> I don't quite know what you mean by "neutral element". I think you mean >> the identity element […] > > I knew I should have looked it up instead of "translating" it from my > mother tongue -- yes I ment "identity element". Sorry for the confusion. >
Neutral element is correct. But maybe its use is limited to mathematicians in the english-speaking word. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
