[Python-Dev] Continuous Sets in 2.3 set implementation?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Frank Horowitz <frank.horowitz@csiro.au>:
> I know it's probably too late in the development cycle to get any
> meaningful continuous set operations supported, but is there any hope of
> renaming the implementation to something along the lines of "dsets" to
> remind the user of the discreteness? (Am I being too pedantic?)

You're being too pedantic.  Even most mathematicians tend to assume a
"set" will be drawn from a finite or discretely-infinite universe unless
the specific context points at a nondenumerable one.

Most mathematicians (other than metamathematicians) would be more
likely to think of a continuous subset of the reals as an `interval'.
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>