On Sat, 21 May 2011 02:02:48 +0100, MRAB wrote: > On 21/05/2011 01:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Fri, 20 May 2011 21:17:29 +0100, MRAB wrote: >> >>> On 20/05/2011 20:01, Christian Heimes wrote: >>>> Am 20.05.2011 17:50, schrieb MRAB: >>>>> Is this strictly true? I thought that the hash value, an integer, is >>>>> moduloed (Is that how you spell it? Looks weird!) ... >>>> >>>> I don't think 'moduloed' is an existing word but your description is >>>> mostly correct. ... >>>> >>> A brief search on the web found a use of the word in 1982. >> >> All that means is that two people, three decades apart, used the same >> non- word :) >> > [snip] > There were other uses. That's just the earliest one I found.
Nevertheless, it is still ungrammatical and incorrect usage. I'm not a prescriptivist, but not everything people write down is a word, otherwise we'd be forcefied to say evert typlo and mystake wsa an actul wrd. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
