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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:37:16 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: semicolon at end of python's statements
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On 2013-08-29 10:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
> but putting semicolons at the ends of Python statements is as
> useless as putting ((((lots of (((irritating (((superfluous
> (((parentheses))))))))))))) in your C++ code. The parser won't mind,
> but subsequent programmers will wonder what these unnecessary
> syntactic elements are for.

That would would be a lisp programmer writing C++ code? :-)

-tkc