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Subject: Re: Python handles globals badly.
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On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:51:14 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
declaimed the following:

>Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> A lot of programs don't use threads, and therefore cannot have thread
>> safety problems - or, looking at it the other way, do not care about
>> thread safetiness. It's like having Neil Armstrong wear water wings to
>> make sure he won't drown in the Sea of Tranquility.
>
>The water wings would be too unwieldy since they'd have to be six times
>as large on the moon. It's all about risk/benefit analysis.

	Actually, since the pull of gravity is 1/6th that of earth, but the
density of the "water" is the Sea is the same, the water wings should be
smaller to provide the same degree of lift.

	Of course, the lack of atmospheric pressure is going to result in the
water wings expanding, perhaps to the bursting point...
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