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Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 02:00:44 +1000
Subject: Re: Append to python List
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Jussi Piitulainen
>> <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>>> 88888 Dihedral writes:
>>>
>>>> This is just the handy style for a non-critical loop.
>>>> In a critical loop, the number of  the total operation counts
>>>> does matter in the execution speed.
>>>
>>> Do you use speed often?
>>
>> Dihedral is a bot. Quite a good one, but a bot.
>
> That's been said often enough. Is the source available and is it in
> Python?

Not to my knowledge. Technically Dihedral is merely _rumoured_ to be a
bot, as we have no actual proof; but we've been conducting a variety
of Turing tests via this list and have yet to see any strong argument
for his being deemed human. Most humans would get defensive, or at
least protest, if treated as bots; Dihedral never has, despite being
referred to in this way a number of times.

ChrisA