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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 00:38:07 +1100
Subject: Re: Performance of int/long in Python 3
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.37.1364970149.3114.python-list@python.org>,
>  Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Neil Hodgson <nhodgson@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> > rusi wrote:
>> >    "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs
>> > which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
>>
>> In my personal experience, it's calculators. I put command-line
>> calculators into *everything*... often in the form of more general
>> executors, and thus restricted to admins, but it's still a calculator.
>>
>> For some reason, the ability to type "calc 1+2" and get back 3 is very
>> satisfying to me. You know, in case I ever forget what one plus two
>> makes.
>
> I discovered recently that Spotlight (the OSX built-in search engine)
> can do this.

Good feature, not surprising. Google Search has had that feature for a
while, and it just "feels right" to be able to look up information the
same way regardless of its source.

ChrisA