On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 02/02/2015 17:25, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to see anybody define 'a' and 'the' without using 'a' and 'the'. >>> Would that be formally rigorous or rigorously formal? >> >> >> a: Indefinite article, used to represent individual objects not >> otherwise identifiable. >> >> Near enough? >> > > Nope. 'article' begins with 'a' so you can't use it to define itself.
Hrm. This is difficult. a: Indefinite identifier, used to represent non-specific objects. Not a perfectly accurate definition now, but hey, I avoided the self-reference! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list