On 2014-11-10, alister <alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:44:53 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2014-11-10, David Palao <dpalao.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> My crystal ball is currently in for repair and is not expected back in >>>> the foreseeable future. >>> >>> Without a crystal ball, this prediction might be not well founded. >> >> That isn't a prediction. It's an explicit statement of no prediction. >> He said that it is "not expected back" rather than "expected not to be >> back". They're two different things. The former asserts a _lack_ of >> expection/prediction. The latter asserts an expectation/prediction. > > It was only a a joke maybe it was a bit to subtle
I know, but in c.l.p, even jokes get nicely pednatic answers. ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! The FALAFEL SANDWICH at lands on my HEAD and I gmail.com become a VEGETARIAN ... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list