On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 at 11:07, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 at 11:00, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
and therefore would become the only thing that offers "full MI", displacing other languages. It's a meaningless concept, unless there is some form of absolute completeness that can be attained
Well duh Chris, sometimes I wonder if you read my posts before jumping in to disagree with me, that is *exactly* what I am arguing.
You placed a LOT of caveats on it. I don't count that as "absolute completeness". It is the most complete that YOU, right now, think could ever be possible.
For a slightly tangential comparison: If you assume that "numbers" are only those on the real number line, then you assume that returning an error when asking for the square root of a negative number is the ONLY way to do things, and a mathematical library that can handle all real numbers is absolutely complete. But based on your knowledge of Python's numeric tower, I think you'd agree that this view, despite having been firmly held for centuries, isn't actually complete. ChrisA