[ Ian Kelly wrote on Sat 22.Sep'12 at 0:22:43 -0600 ] > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:49:55 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, 88888 Dihedral > >> <dihedral88...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >>> I don't think functional aspects are only marked as lazy programming. > >> > >> He wrote "lazy evaluation", not "lazy programming". Two entirely > >> different things. > > > > > > For the record, the consensus here is that 88888 Dihedral is probably a > > bot. It appears to be a pretty good bot, I haven't spotted it making any > > egregious or obvious grammatical mistakes, but the semantics of its posts > > don't seem quite human. > > I'm aware of that, although sometimes the posts seem coherent enough > that I think maybe it's not. Especially the ones where it posts > almost-working code snippets, complete with obvious typos. > > Then it posts a complete non sequitur like the reply to my reply in > this thread, and the illusion is shattered.
I find this intriguing, I had no idea bots existed to post to mailing lists in this way. What's the point of them? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list