terminological obscurity

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com>:
...
| I think the fact that Python lists can be heterogogenous is one
| of the most brilliantly useful things in the language, but
| apparently we're not supposed to use lists like that.  Since
| tuples aren't mutable, I'm completely at a loss as to how we're
| supposed to deal with mutable heterogenous sequences.

You'll have to either try to understand what people mean, or ignore
them.  Either will work better than the above.  A heterogeneous
sequence can mean at least two things, not because there's anything
ambiguous about "heterogeneous" on its own, but because of the way
it's applied to the sequence.  The notion that this is a distinctive
difference between lists and tuples is ridiculous if you take one
of those meanings, sensible if you take the other.  Your choice.

...
|> Am I missing something again?
|
| If so, then I guess we both are.

It's lucky you two have found each other.

	Donn