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Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:

> By posting code with an extra indent, you make it imposible to run by
> just cutting and pasting. You should already know that.

I commonly do that, as I do with most block quotes in plain text.

I think it's a reasonable expectation that programmers, reading a forum
about program code, will have at hand a programmer's editor capable of
stripping a level of indentation from a block of code.

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