Am Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 10:00:16PM +1100 schrieb Chris Angelico: > > Am Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 10:20:19AM +1100 schrieb Chris Angelico: > > > > > Many operations in computing are fully reversible. After you do > > > something, you can undo it. After you assign, you can unassign. And > > > after you ite, you can unite! > > > > I wonder whether Japanese programmers would agree. > > Not sure. My knowledge of Japanese is extremely scanty. Can you elaborate?
ite is the -te form (in some uses like a gerundium) of aru (to go, to walk) so, to un-go, revert-the-having-gone-ness, I genuinely wonder ... On the other hand, Japanese is full of wondrous word-play at levels undreamt of by us ASCIInarians. Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list