[Python-Dev] Continuous Sets in 2.3 set implementation? (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Mon, 11 Nov 2002 04:08:45 -0500

Frank Horowitz <frank.horowitz@csiro.au>:

I know it's probably too late in the development cycle to get any meaningful continuous set operations supported, but is there any hope of renaming the implementation to something along the lines of "dsets" to remind the user of the discreteness? (Am I being too pedantic?)

You're being too pedantic. Even most mathematicians tend to assume a "set" will be drawn from a finite or discretely-infinite universe unless the specific context points at a nondenumerable one.

Most mathematicians (other than metamathematicians) would be more likely to think of a continuous subset of the reals as an `interval'.

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