[Tutor] writing function changeColor

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed Jul 18 22:20:35 CEST 2012


Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 7/18/2012 12:07 PM Aditi Pai said...
>> Hey Emile! Thanks for the advice. I think maybe I should have combined
>> the two parts of my email. The function is just called changeColor. I
>> don't actually want to change the color as much as alter the color.
> 
> I'm not sure there's a difference...


You're being too kind. Of course there isn't a difference. "Change" and 
"alter" are synonyms, so Aditi doesn't want to change the color, but change 
the color instead.

Aditi, that is not very helpful. You're asking us for help, but wasting our 
time with riddles.


-- 
Steven



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