Steven writes: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:13:19 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Being indexable is subtly different from being subscriptable - the > > former has stronger connotations of numeric indices and sequence-like > > behaviour
> With my maths background, I would expect that subscripts are (almost) > always numeric, e.g. x-subscript-i means the i-th x value, where i > is a natural number. I don't think you can get general agreement on which tend to connote numerical indicies more. On the other hand, in many contexts "index" is a general concept, while "subscript" is a typographical convention for representing an index. +1 on indexable +0.5 on subscriptable -0.1 on scriptable _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
