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On 2 February 2012 12:43, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hmm, after writing up that list, the idea of using "\_\_cause\_\_ is
Ellipsis" (or even "\_\_cause\_\_ is ...")to mean "use \_\_context\_\_
instead" occurs to me. After all, "..." has the right connotations of
"fill this in from somewhere else", and since we really just want a
known sentinel object that isn't None and isn't a meaningful type like
the boolean singletons...

It's cute yet seems appropriate ... I quite like it.

Tim Delaney