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Re: min max from tuples in list

From Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
Subject Re: min max from tuples in list
Date 2013-12-16 10:59 -0500
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On 12/16/13 10:49 AM, rusi wrote:
> On Sunday, December 15, 2013 9:11:15 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Roberts wrote:
>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>>> Well "performant" is performant enough for the purposes of communicating
>>>> on the python list I think :D
>>> 	Most probably could figure it out as being stylistically similar to
>>> conformant => something that conforms
>>> performant => something that performs
>
>> Yes, I suspect it comes from people expecting too much consistency.  If
>> something that has "conformance" is "conformant", then something that has
>> good "performance" must be "performant".
>
> And things that have consistency are of course...
>
> consistant
>
> (not consistent)
>

In English, it's spelled consistent: 
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consistant

-- 
Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com

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min max from tuples in list Robert Voigtländer <r.voigtlaender@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 23:25 -0800
  Re: min max from tuples in list Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 19:18 +1100
  Re: min max from tuples in list Robert Voigtländer <r.voigtlaender@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 00:34 -0800
    Re: min max from tuples in list Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 19:43 +1100
  Re: min max from tuples in list Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-12-12 09:35 +0100
  Re: min max from tuples in list Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-12-12 10:52 +0200
  Re: min max from tuples in list Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-12-12 10:03 +0100
  Re: min max from tuples in list Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-12 11:44 +0000
    Re: min max from tuples in list Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-12-12 06:04 -0600
    Re: min max from tuples in list MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-12-12 12:36 +0000
      Re: min max from tuples in list Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-12 23:25 +0000
    Re: min max from tuples in list Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-12-12 13:54 +0100
      Re: min max from tuples in list Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-13 02:36 +0000
    Re: min max from tuples in list Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-12 10:02 -0500
      Re: min max from tuples in list Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-12 15:13 +0000
        Re: min max from tuples in list Robert Voigtländer <r.voigtlaender@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 22:28 -0800
          Re: min max from tuples in list rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-13 10:06 -0800
            Re: min max from tuples in list Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-12-13 19:30 -0500
              Re: min max from tuples in list Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-12-14 19:41 -0800
                Re: min max from tuples in list Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-16 23:08 +1100
                Re: min max from tuples in list rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-16 07:49 -0800
                Re: min max from tuples in list Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-16 10:59 -0500
                Re: min max from tuples in list Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-12-17 11:49 +1300
  Re: min max from tuples in list Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-12-13 01:33 +0000

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