PEP 218 Re: ANN: set-0.1 module available

[James J. Besemer]

Roman Suzi wrote:

> On Fri, 17 May 2002, James J. Besemer wrote:
>
> > I beg to differ.  Mathematically, there's no notion of assignment like we have in
> > programming.  From a traditional mathematics view " x = x + 1" is a nonsensical
> > statement.  At best it's a contradiction in terms.  In Mathematics, you don't
> > have assignment that can be done over and over.  You can only make statements
> > about equality or inequality.  At bottom all mathematics is defined in terms of
> > sets and predicates about sets.
>
> It is right. But if you look into applied math journals, people
> communicate algorithms in a pseudolanguage where sets are
> widely used. It could be nice if Python supported such things closer.

Python certain can support sets and set arithmetic INDEPENDENTLY of whether sets are
intrinsic or not.

Regards

--jb

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