Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Could I honestly argue this to him? From what basis do I argue that it is not an equation?
It's his responsibility to show that it *is* an equation.
x = x + 1
Equation? I think not.
I think it is. One equation in one unknown. The solution set for x is {}.
As a logical equation, it has the value false (just like 0 = 1).
Okay, okay, fair enough. But that interpretation has no correspondence with the behavior of that statement in a Python program. x always has a value (presuming it had one before the statement and no exceptions were raised during the addition operation).
-- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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