On 27/06/20 4:33 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Take the word out of the sentence, and does the sentence still mean the same thing? Then the word was needless. That's an objective test.
But in something a fuzzy as natural language, "the same thing" is not a boolean value. How close in meaning does it have to be? Different people will have different opinions. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/RSDOQEK7IZMHU6G4LBZTDCS4BCMYLKGU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
