Help with sets
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Oct 14 19:09:13 EDT 2010
Steve Howell wrote:
> That was the original context of my comment. The term "symmetry" gets
> used a couple times in that PEP, and I think we're in violent
> agreement that the concept of "symmetry" is wishy-washy at best.
>
> Here is just one example from the PEP:
>
> The symmetry between "if x in y" and "for x in y"
> suggests that it should iterate over keys.
Maybe "analogy" or "similarity" would be a better word here.
--
Greg
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