Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > Yup. It's amazing how accurate your conjectures are - it's almost like > you've been reading the docs! :D But yeah, that's pretty logical IMHO; > and having gotten used to [) intervals in many areas of computing, > I've come to find [] intervals disconcerting. Bible passages are > described as, for instance, John 14:5-7, which is a three-verse > passage (5, 6, 7), even though 7-5=2.
Another good reason to advocate for proper typography. “John 14:5–7” indicates a range (because it uses U+2013 EN DASH), whereas “7−5” indicates subtraction (because it uses U+2212 MINUS SIGN). A hyphen (‘-’ U+002D) is inappropriate in either case. -- \ “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his | `\ enemy from oppression.” —Thomas Paine | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
