Addressing schemes (Re: Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!))

[Grant Edwards]

In article <8mc6b302pas at news1.newsguy.com>, Alex Martelli wrote:
>"Grant Edwards" <ge at nowhere.none> wrote in message
>news:Uvfi5.3263$6E.942087 at ptah.visi.com...
>> In article <s5qhos8k2v7kg58s2e36ei2emfrlcrha8b at 4ax.com>, Dennis Lee Bieber
>wrote:
>>
>> > Is the Grand Rapids "8 blocks/mile" common, or just my
>> >imagination? (From 28th street to 36th street is one mile).
>>
>> In the city of Minneapolis, in residential areas, it's
>> nominally 16 blocks/mile going North/South and 32 blocks per
>> mile going East/West.
>>
>> The occasional river or lake somethings messes up the pattern.
>
>Lakes in Minneapolis (a wonderful city, btw, except for the
>humidity) are NOT occasional, though, aren't they?  They do
>seem to be all over the place...!-)

Well they're occasional as you move along spacial dimensions,
if you know what I mean.  Although with some of the storms
we've had this spring and summer there are have been temporally
occasional ones also.

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