On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:32:35 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > Not such illogical crap like > ``a = a + 1`` which must be obviously false unless 1 is defined as the > neutral element for the definition of ``+`` here.
I don't quite know what you mean by "neutral element". I think you mean the identity element under addition, which is zero, but that doesn't work: 0 = 0 + 1 Obviously not. I think the only workable answer might be a = infinity, but that has two problems: (1) infinity isn't a valid integer or real number (although there is a valid float representing infinity on many platforms); and (2) which infinity? Aleph 0, aleph 1, c, ... There's an infinite number of them. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
