Heh! A flurry of opinions! No time right now… other than to say thank you (MRAB) for this little gem:
On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 10:29:02 PM UTC+5:30, MRAB wrote: > On 2016-07-16 17:27, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:33 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > [snip] > > > And yes, Rustom, I'm very familiar with the philosophical objections to the > > something/nothing distinction. "Is zero truly nothing, or is it some thing > > distinct from the absence of any number?" I'm not interested in that > > argument. Let the philosophers count angels, but as far as Python code > > goes, I'm an intuitionist: if I have zero sheep, that's the same as not > > having any sheep, or having no sheep. > > > [snip] > > And if you're going to argue that zero is something, then you could also > argue that false is something... Likewise Chris’ example of the comparison of Pike and Python alternative semantics -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
