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Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list

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Date Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:22:43 -0600
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:49:55 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, 88888 Dihedral
>> <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> I don't think functional aspects are only marked as lazy programming.
>>
>> He wrote "lazy evaluation", not "lazy programming".  Two entirely
>> different things.
>
>
> For the record, the consensus here is that 88888 Dihedral is probably a
> bot. It appears to be a pretty good bot, I haven't spotted it making any
> egregious or obvious grammatical mistakes, but the semantics of its posts
> don't seem quite human.

I'm aware of that, although sometimes the posts seem coherent enough
that I think maybe it's not.  Especially the ones where it posts
almost-working code snippets, complete with obvious typos.

Then it posts a complete non sequitur like the reply to my reply in
this thread, and the illusion is shattered.

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Functional way to compare things inside a list thorsopia@lavabit.com - 2012-09-20 18:58 -0400
  Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list "Ivan@work" <ivan.cvetkovic@pakel.hr> - 2012-09-21 10:24 +0200
  Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-09-21 10:31 +0200
  Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-09-21 10:52 +0200
    Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-21 12:54 -0700
      Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-21 14:49 -0600
        Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-21 14:45 -0700
        Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-21 14:45 -0700
        Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-09-22 01:25 +0000
          Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 00:22 -0600
            Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-21 23:50 -0700
            Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-21 23:50 -0700
          Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net> - 2012-09-22 08:08 +0100
          Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 02:19 -0500
            Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 21:09 -0700
            Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 21:09 -0700

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