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On 11/08/2014 13:11, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> But then when it comes to Steven supporting the violation 500 years* of
> math conventional usage of '=':
>

I have no interest in the maths convention (see, you don't even know the 
original, correct English, math indeed).  Of far more importance in the 
real world is the Irish navvy convention.  Are there any such people 
lurking here who can give us the required insight?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence