On Apr 16, 2:27 pm, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > I will not change the sentence to "return false if any element > > of the iterable is false." The negations make the sentence > > hard to parse mentally > > Just as a ribbing, that "return X if any element of the iterable > is X" is of the same form as the original. The negation is only > of the X, not of the sentence structure. > > > I will probably leave the lead-in sentence as-is but may > > add another sentence specifically covering the case for > > an empty iterable. > > as one of the instigators in this thread, I'm +1 on this solution.
Yes, I now appreciate the motivation for having the word "all" in the text, and simply adding something like "or the iterable is empty" might head off future confusion. dale -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
