Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)

[Grant Edwards]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:41:15 +0200, Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:

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>> What comes next?
>
>Now THAT is a poser.  In Europe at least, for example, if you're looking
>for a house you know that what's likely to come next is 3, then 5, etc;
>odd-numbered addresses are on one side of the road, even-numbered ones
>on the other (two separate sequences).

It's the same in most places in the US also.  The size of the
"jumps" is often larger.  In most places numbers go up 100 per
"block" (where a block is the distance from one street corner
to the next).  Since there are maybe 10-20 houses per block,
numbers tend to go up by larger increments.

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