On 8/26/2016 7:58 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote:
"If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck,... "
so there is indeed precedence for this so-called 'duck typing'
but wouldn't it be more Pythonic to call this 'witch typing'?
"How do you know she is a witch?"
"She looks like one."
Given that people were once burned to death for 'looking like a witch'
(or sounding or acting), and can still suffer socially for such reasons,
this it not funny to me. We should stick with ducks.
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