Dale Roberts schreef: > 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. >
> [...] and simply adding something like "or the iterable is empty" > might head off future confusion. +1 -- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -- Isaac Asimov Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
