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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 16:41:48 +1000
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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Subject: 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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