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Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)

Ben Wolfson rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org
Fri Jul 28 14:56:09 EDT 2000 
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 07:59:38 GMT, grey at despair.rpglink.com (Steve Lamb)
wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 06:52:19 GMT, Ben Wolfson <rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org>
>wrote:
>>Yes, it does.  List returns the list-equivalent of the sequence passed as
>>its argument.  1 is not a sequence; it doesn't have a list equivalent.
>
>    1 is a sequence whether Python likes it or not.  I call that a deficiency
>in the language.
>
>>Any _sequence_ can be a single element or sequence.
>>Any _single element_ can't be a single element or sequence.
>
>    Let's pause and reflect on a single element not being able to be a single
>element.

You are, I think, deliberately misinterpreting me.

Any single element can't be "a single element or a sequence".  It can only
be a single element.

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