On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 8/26/2016 7:58 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote: >> >> "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck,... " >> >> so there is indeed precedence for this so-called 'duck typing' >> >> >> but wouldn't it be more Pythonic to call this 'witch typing'? >> >> "How do you know she is a witch?" >> >> "She looks like one." > > > Given that people were once burned to death for 'looking like a witch' (or > sounding or acting), and can still suffer socially for such reasons, this it > not funny to me. We should stick with ducks. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
which ducks? -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
