I sent this email twelve hours ago but to the wrong mailing list *blush*. Since nobody else has raised the point, I'll repost it.
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Jussi Piitulainen <jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi> wrote: > But both negations can be avoided by modus tollens. > > "If you are able to start the car, the key is in the ignition." > But this translation implies looking at the result and ascertaining the state, which is less appropriate to a programming language. It's more like: "If you found that you were able to start the car, the key must have been in the ignition." and is thus quite inappropriate to the imperative style. A functional language MAY be able to use this style, but Python wants to have the condition and then the action. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
