On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:56:12 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: [snip]
>> Really, I don't think this makes a good poster child for your "attribute >> mutators make life more difficult" campaign...;-) > > The claim is that there exists cases where that's true. This cases > demonstrates the existence of such cases. That the sample is trivial > means the difficulty is trivial, so yeah, it's a miserable poster > child. But it's a perfectly adequate existence proof. Huh? As I see it: Claim: doing X makes Y hard. Here is an example of doing X where Y is easy. Therefore that example proves that doing X makes Y hard. Perhaps I've missed some subtle meaning of the terms "demonstrates" and "existence proof". -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
