Boris Borcic wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > We seem to have strayed a long way from Voltaire's
> > "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your
> > right to say it.",
> > but that was of course the age of enlightenment.
>
> Obviously this wisdom is getting stale an
Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Op 2006-05-09, Pisin Bootvong schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > Antoon Pardon wrote:
> >> Op 2006-05-09, Pisin Bootvong schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> > Is this a Slippery Slope fallacious argument?
> >> > (
Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Op 2006-05-09, Pisin Bootvong schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Is this a Slippery Slope fallacious argument?
> > (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SlipperySlope)
>
> No it is not.
>
> [...]
>
> So the question I have is: Why is requiring me to g
Rob Warnock wrote:
> Pisin Bootvong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +---
> | No matter how scalable your language is, you cannot make a 100MHz/128MB
> | server serve 100,000 client a second over the internet.
> +---
>
> Sure you can! That's
Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>
> Now imagine you had to do this with every object.
>
> def add_five(x)
> # return x + 5 <-- anonymous integer literal, not allowed!!!
>five = 5 # define it first
>return x + five
>
I mentioned that as Slippery slope fallacious argument in other reply.
> [
Joe Marshall wrote:
> Alex Martelli wrote:
> Most languages allow `unnamed numbers'. The `VAT_MULTIPLIER' argument
> is a
> strawman. Would you want to have to use a special syntax to name the
> increment
> in loop?
>
> defnumber zero 0
> defnumber one { successor (zero); }
>
> for (int i = z
Xah Lee เขียน:
> i'm trying to lookup on the detail of language Python's “lambda”
> function feature. I've seen it before, but today i need to read about
> it again since i'm writing. I quickly went to the index page:
> http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/genindex.html
> but all i got is a LambdaType.
