Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code

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On 30Jun2013 16:06, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
| So, here's a challenge: Come up with something really simple, and
| write an insanely complicated - yet perfectly valid - way to achieve
| the same thing. Bonus points for horribly abusing Python's clean
| syntax in the process.

_Must_ you turn this into comp.lang.perl?
Once I was JAPH...
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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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Re: Stupid ways to spell simple code Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-06-30 16:41 +1000

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