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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:28:30 -0700
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On 04/24/2013 07:20 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> In article <5178884b$0$29977$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>>   Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't see why you would need anything like that. Reading further on, I
>>> see that you are counting unimplemented rules as true, for some reason
>>> which I don't understand.
>>
>> The top-level logic we need to enforce is "this configuration doesn't
>> violate any rules".
>
> Then have your unimplemented rules simply return True. Easy!

And less clear.

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~Ethan~