Names changed to protect the guilty

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Sat Oct 7 07:59:46 EDT 2006


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:29:34 -0700, John Machin wrote:
>
> >
> > MonkeeSage wrote:
> >> On Oct 6, 8:02 pm, "MonkeeSage" <MonkeeS... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > it is clearer to you to make the condition explicit ("blah not False"),
> >>
> >> "blah not False" -> "blah is False"
> >
> > Whichever way your team wants to interpret it, d00d.
> >
> > Please consider whether you should be writing "(blah is False) is
> > True", that would be more explicit.
>
> Puh-lease! Get it right!
>
> It should be "((blah is False) is True) is True".
>

Yes, but it stops after one more iteration. "What I tell you three
times is true" -- the Bellman, "The Hunting of the Snark", by Lewis
Carroll.




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