On 9/21/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/21/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > """ > > > George isn't tall enough to ride the greatest rollercoaster of all > > > time, The Turbo Python 3000. He uses licorice whips to measure his > > > height and determines that he is 7-whips tall, one short of the 8-whip > > > minimum! > > > """ > > > > Fantastic! I vote that we hereby adopt the licorice whip > > as the standard unit for measuring the speed of Python 3.0 > > implementations, with the speed of 2.6 (whatever it turns > > out to be) defined as 7 whips. > > Ah, but is 6 whips faster or slower than 7 whips?
Slower. If we get up to 8 we can go for an exciting ride! :-) -- Nick _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
