> >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott David Daniels > > > >So, that's why CS people like immutable primitive types.
I believe you. But if we trace back the thread we will see that the bottom line question that I was struggling with at the beginning was precisely the question of what *makes* a primitive type such. Obviously something much deeper than the fact that it is coded in C. But let's leave it alone though, because at the moment, among other things - for the practical purposes for which I raised the issue (and as a Naïve Programmer, that is my focus) - it seems to be moot. Ten posts back or so I had tried to communicate that through Kirby's prodding and Michael's suggestive remarks, I had begun to see an approach that I had not before considered that might solve the issue I consider myself to be facing in a manner that was more satisfactory - not only to the CS world - but to myself. This was *after* I complemented Kirby on the transparency of his approach and suggested that I was trying to emulate such an approach more thoroughly. But - and this is what particularly confused me - before he declared the idea of a mutable complex number - I think the technical term was - "creepy". Let's just go to sleep. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
