Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 04:03:38 CEST 2014

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
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>> >> - I'd prefer a name that plays on 2 and 3, not 2 and 8. :-)
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> How about mirg2**3 (pronounced "migrate") ?
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> ;-)
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Just read this, and laughed so loudly and suddenly that my brother's
cat jumped in fright.

Spelled 2**3 and pronounced 8 makes perfect sense, same as spelling
"Mercurial" as "hg".

ChrisA

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