On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > What I did say in the post you responded to is "Any programmer who sorts (or > uses functions that depend on proper sorting) should know and respect the > difference between partial orders, such as set inclusion, and total orders, > such as lex order of sequences."
FWIW (i.e. not much): before this thread if you'd asked me about partial and total orders I'd have had to run to Wikipedia real quick to figure it out. Hopefully I'm still allowed to use Python. Jacob _______________________________________________ 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
