On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 12:19 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > And how do you write even the simplest assignment statement without a > (mathematical) expression on the rhs?
name = other_name is not a mathematical expression. Its giving something a new name. name = obj.attribute is not a mathematical expression. (That's not a dot product.) > What were Turing, Church, von Neumann, even Knuth by training? Mathematicians > or CS-ists? > > And what are the contributions of Turing, Church, von Neumann, Knuth to CS? Who cares? We're talking about Python, not Computer Science. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
