On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 at 11:07, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 at 11:00, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > > and therefore > > > would become the only thing that offers "full MI", displacing other > > > languages. It's a meaningless concept, unless there is some form of > > > absolute completeness that can be attained > > > > Well duh Chris, sometimes I wonder if you read my posts before jumping > > in to disagree with me, that is *exactly* what I am arguing. > > You placed a LOT of caveats on it. I don't count that as "absolute > completeness". It is the most complete that YOU, right now, think > could ever be possible.
For a slightly tangential comparison: If you assume that "numbers" are only those on the real number line, then you assume that returning an error when asking for the square root of a negative number is the ONLY way to do things, and a mathematical library that can handle all real numbers is absolutely complete. But based on your knowledge of Python's numeric tower, I think you'd agree that this view, despite having been firmly held for centuries, isn't actually complete. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/WEXGRVKZ7EOLM2D7EZZVS3EED7GBGGW2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
