Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:56:12 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: >>> 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.
Harder, not hard. > Here is an example of doing X where Y is easy. Y is very easy in any case. Making it incrementally harder doesn't make it hard - it's still very easy. > Perhaps I've missed some subtle meaning of the terms "demonstrates" and > "existence proof". I think you missed the original claim. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list