In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>> >>>Some of the ideas that have been proposed on Python-ideas as well as >>>Python, have received partial evaluation from the alphas. >> >> What do you mean by "alphas"? > >Alpha test releases are the round of test distributions before the >beta tests, which come before the release candidates which come before >the final release.
Interesting, but I would bet that castironpi actually is referring to "alpha males" (particularly in the context of "big shots"); however, your confusion is precisely why I called it out. Incoherent writing rarely flies well in this community (which is one reason why I love Python!). -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." --Butler Lampson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
