Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.088 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.82; '*S*': 0.00; 'indicates': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; ';-)': 0.11; 'collapse': 0.16; 'expands': 0.16; 'message-id:@dough.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'thu,': 0.17; '>>>': 0.18; 'regardless': 0.21; 'work.': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.26; 'expand': 0.26; 'i.e.': 0.27; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'represent': 0.28; 'run': 0.28; '>>>>': 0.29; 'writes:': 0.29; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'ram': 0.33; 'retain': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'expected': 0.35; 'pm,': 0.35; "won't": 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'test': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'itself': 0.37; 'far': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'perform': 0.38; 'sure': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'little': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'john': 0.60; 'subject:, ': 0.61; 'hearing': 0.61; 'series': 0.63; 'world': 0.63; 'more': 0.63; 'limit': 0.65; 'beat': 0.65; 'jul': 0.65; 'death': 0.71; 'lose': 0.71; 'ranking.': 0.84; 'universe': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'heat': 0.91; 'subject:skip:E 10': 0.95; 'africa': 0.97 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:00:59 +0100 References: <5005A103.9050802@stoneleaf.us> <5006b48a$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <50076437$0$1756$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <3d919437-80a8-424f-ae90-fb829434dba2@po9g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> <500804cc$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <50084FEC.7040806@tim.thechases.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-27-62.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120719-2, 19/07/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1342774825 news.xs4all.nl 6904 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59297 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:25686 On 19/07/2012 22:13, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:01 PM, John Gordon wrote: >> In Dennis Lee Bieber writes: >> >>>> Sure it terminates...If you don't run out of RAM to represent the >>>> number "i" in question, there's also this "heat death of the >>>> universe" limit I keep hearing about ;-) >>>> >>> Since the current evidence indicates the universe will just keep >>> expanding, it's more of a "deep freeze death..." >> >> Heat death means *lack* of heat. > > Actually actually it means *uniformity* of heat, i.e. that the entire > universe is in thermodynamic equilibrium and so it is impossible to > perform work. So heat death is expected regardless of whether the > universe ultimately collapses or expands indefinitely. > All of this will pale into complete insignificance provided that England beat South Africa in the current cricket test match series and retain their world no.1 ranking. Of course if they lose the universe will collapse immediately or expand so far that it tears itself to tiny little pieces. Even The Ashes won't survive, something I should perhaps take up with the MCC. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.