"Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)" wrote:
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Not a *very* contrived example. I've "highlighted" the word "blocks" as best I can in email. Note that the second usage of the word in the doc string is *not* a candidate for cross referencing. Given the nature of the english language (I can't speak for others) such multiple binding of meaning for a single word is common.
Okay, but what is the real cost of the mis-identification? -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself The great era of mathematical physics is now over; the 300-year effort to represent the material world in mathematical terms has exhausted itself. The understanding it was to provide is infinitely closer than it was when Isaac Newton wrote in the late seventeenth centruy, but it is still infinitely far away. - The Advent of the Algorithm (pending), by David Berlinski