Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A somewhat odd thought that occurred to me is that the shortest > possible way of writing negative assertions (i.e. asserting that > something is not the case) is to treat them as denials and use the > single word 'deny'.
-1 This, to me, is neither intuitive nor meaningful in context. The term "deny" is strongly linked to its antonym, "permit". Whom is being denied? What have they asked to do that I am denying in my test? I think in terms of "true or false", or "pass or fail". I'm making statements about behaviour of the program, not about permitting or denying something. -- \ “The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial | `\ television and could not exist in its present form without it.” | _o__) —John Kenneth Galbraith, _The New Industrial State_, 1967 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ 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
