[Python-Dev] PEP 259: Omit printing newline after newline

Simon Brunning SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk
Wed Jun 13 10:22:11 EDT 2001


> From:	ullrich at math.okstate.edu [SMTP:ullrich at math.okstate.edu]
> 
> Some time ago I said something to someone about
> the "orthogonality" in Python's design. The guy
> I was speaking to had never heard the word
> applied in this context - I tried to explain
> what it seemed to me the word meant here, he
> explained back that he was a professional
> programmer and had never heard of the word,
> _almost_ stating that it followed that there
> was no such use of the word, and there we were.
> 
> So just out of curiosity: Roughly what do you
> mean by "orthogonality" above?
 
See
<http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=orthogonal&action=Search
>.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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