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Subject: RE: Multi-dimensional list initialization
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:=0D=0A> =0D=0A> On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 17:07:09 +1100, =
Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail=2Ecom>=0D=0A> declaimed the following in gmane=
=2Ecomp=2Epython=2Egeneral:=0D=0A> =0D=0A> > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:39 P=
M, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo=2Eco=2Euk> wrote:=0D=0A> > > On 07/11/2=
012 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:=0D=0A> > >>=0D=0A> > >>=0D=0A> > >> Who k=
nows? Who cares? Nobody does:=0D=0A> > >>=0D=0A> > >> n -=3D n=0D=0A> > >>=
=0D=0A> > >=0D=0A> > > But I've seen this scattered through code:=0D=0A> > =
>=0D=0A> > > x :=3D x - x - x=0D=0A> >=0D=0A> > Can you enlighten us as to =
how this is better than either:=0D=0A> >  x :=3D -x=0D=0A> > or=0D=0A> >  x=
 :=3D 0 - x=0D=0A> =0D=0A> 	Of course, if one has a language that, for some=
 reason, evaluates=0D=0A> right-to-left (APL, anyone), then=0D=0A> =0D=0A> =
	x :=3D x - x - x=0D=0A> =0D=0A> becomes=0D=0A> =0D=0A> 	x :=3D x - 0=0D=0A=
> =0D=0A=0D=0AIs that not the same as x:=3D-x?=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A~Ramit=0D=
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