On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:34 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > > Symmetry is always a tricky balance in programming languages. > > Is that what we used to call “orthogonality”?
No, orthogonality is something else. "Orthogonal" means "perpendicular to." See the Wikipedia article for a discussion of the word's application to computer science. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
