On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 10:06 am, Jon Ribbens wrote: > >> On 2017-11-05, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >>> Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> writes: >>>> I've provided you with a way of thinking about 'for...else' that makes >>>> its purpose and meaning intuitively obvious. >>> >>> I've read that sentence several times, and I still can't make it >>> anything but a contradiction in terms. >> >> Well, keep at it and I'm sure you'll work it out eventually. > > > Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't > believe impossible things.' > > 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. > 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. > Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things > before breakfast.'
Yes, that. Although I was more thinking of the word "intuitively": `When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' `The question is,' said Alice, `whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.' `The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that's all.' ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
