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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: semicolon at end of python's statements
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On 2013-08-31, Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> wrote:
> Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> writes:
>
>
>> # Option 1.5
>> for spam in sequence:
>>     if not predicate(spam): continue
>>     process(spam)
>>
>> This saves an indent level.
>
> Just out of interest: is saving an indent level a useful thing?

Perhaps he's worried about the world running out of tabs?

I heard that most of the tab mines are in China and they're going to
stop exporting...

-- 
Grant