Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: one-element tuples Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:31:39 +1000 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <851t6d3s0k.fsf_-_@benfinney.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 7SEye70mSlDjOh+POPE/xwBQV9odFtMiKDg1VrTkonrw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:wO49HwRg9jwoW7XqAu7ztItwaKM= Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.026 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.95; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'explicitly': 0.15; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'language': 0.19; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'question': 0.27; "i'm": 0.30; 'point': 0.33; 'is?': 0.33; 'so,': 0.35; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'why': 0.39; 'subject:-': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; "they're": 0.66; 'skip:\xe2 10': 0.70; '_o__)': 0.84; 'received:125': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <851t6d3s0k.fsf_-_@benfinney.id.au> X-Mailman-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:106813 Fillmore writes: > So, my original question makes sense. Why was a discontinuation point > introduced by the language designer? Can you describe explicitly what that “discontinuation point” is? I'm not seeing it. -- \ “People are very open-minded about new things, as long as | `\ they're exactly like the old ones.” —Charles F. Kettering | _o__) | Ben Finney