John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Fri Nov 7 09:28:38 EST 2003

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hwlgw at hotmail.com (Will Stuyvesant) writes:

> > [Jess Austin]
> >                  ...It seems like the consensus is "all" and "any". 
> 
> Oh no!  Their mathematical names are "forall" and "exists" and that is
> what they should be IMO.  Any programmer I can think of is familiar
> with "forall" and "exists" in mathematics.

Far from all Python programmers have been exposed to quantificational
logic.


John

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