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>> Not that it is of no historical interest to review all these > If the counterpoints are of no historical interest, then the original if not x != 5 *wink* In English, a double negative is usually a positive. So "Not that it is of I wonder, if somebody with more time on their hands than me were to go -- On Tue, 29 May 2007 11:36:07 -0700, Erik Max Francis wrote: I hope you don't get just as confused by expressions like:
> Donn Cave wrote:
>> reasonable arguments, but allow me to restore the context quote
>> from my follow-up:
> point must be of no historical interest either, since it was not widely
> granted as true.
no historical interest" means "It is of historical interest".
through the threads on comp.lang.python before and after the introduction
of bools, could we determine whether there were more problems caused by
the introduction of True and False than by the lack of them? Although I
like using bools, in my heart of hearts I suspect that Laura was right.
Steven.