On 02/04/2021 13.00, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 10:43 AM dn via Python-list > <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> >> On 02/04/2021 10.13, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> Well, it's a simple matter of chronology. First you have crude oil, >>> then time passes, and then you have plastic and residue. It makes >>> sense ONLY if you think of it with a specific ordering, which implies >>> Python 3.7 or later. >> >> My anxiety over 'ordering' comes to the fore: if there are multiple >> inputs and/or multiple outputs, how can one tell where the former series >> ends and the latter begins? >> >> "Explicit" cf "implicit"? > > The exact same way. Before time passes, you have all of the inputs; > after time passes, you have all of the outputs. (The way the game > goes, all inputs are consumed simultaneously and all outputs produced > simultaneously, so there's no chronological distinctions between > them.)
Ah, I hadn't suspended enough of (my) reality to realise that we are talking about a game. Morphology in the arms of Morpheus? English Idiom/quotation: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_the_arms_of_Morpheus > Chocolate comes in tiers. > > 1: Top tier chocolates - fine chocolates - are made by true artisans, It is well to remember artisans (people who work with artesian water?), but I'm more interested in being an aficionado - thus any addition/alteration to the chocolate is at best diminution, and at worst, 'pollution'! Stop being distracted, AND save money! > 2: Everyday chocolate. ...can eat a block of Cadbury every day I realised that the days of my six-pack were over when I met chocolate. These days rather than an eight-pack, I'm settling for an ate-pack! "Six pack" abs: https://www.menshealth.com/uk/building-muscle/a747790/four-week-six-pack-plan/ "Ate-pack": I saw it. I ate it! > 3: Cooking chocolate. Eating this sounds much like drinking from a plain, brown, bag... > 4: Cheap chocolate. This is like trying to write Python code as if it were Java - they even taste much the same! >> View >> https://www.whittakers.co.nz/en_NZ/products/72-dark-ghana/block-250g >> before questioning my curmugeonly credentials! > > Oh yes, that's definitely one of the good brands. By "credentials", do > you mean that you have some connection with the company? If not, > that's fine, but it would certainly be notable if you do! Meaning that you'd only love me for my (access to) chocolate? (I'd feel so used - if the chocolate 'high' allowed) Sadly, my only connection to the company is purchaser:supplier. However, I should volunteer to be a taster, or to use my ?expertise to train their staff. Do you think they have an 'all you can eat' policy? Is there such a thing as F/LOSS in the chocolate world? What does it mean to fork a block of chocolate? Where is their repository? My overwhelming qualifications and thus "credentials", and those which I seem to be extending most often these days, involve ageing (dis-)gracefully and becoming a curmudgeon. Definition of 'grumpy old man': https://www.dictionary.com/browse/curmudgeon Bah, the chocolate these days is nothing like what we had when I were a lad...! -- Regards, =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
