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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Blais</b> <<a href="mailto:bblais@bryant.edu">bblais@bryant.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello,<br><br>I am not asking an existential question about the meaning of the integer set, but<br>rather what it means when someone writes in an email on this list, something like:
<br><br>+1</blockquote>
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<div>Often seen around the Python community. May be construed as "another vote for..."</div>
<div>whereas -1 has the opposite meaning.</div>
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<div>As you may already know, there's a formal process for proposing enhancements to</div>
<div>the Python language and/or surrounding infrastructure. A lot of the lists where you</div>
<div>see +1 syntax occuring often will have these so-called PEPs under discussion. </div>
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<div>edu-sig doesn't have much history around PEPs as most of our discussions are </div>
<div>not focussed on changing the language. Python itself is more a fait accompli </div>
<div>around here, with a focus on how best to teach it.</div>
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<div>Kirby</div>
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