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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:51:32 +1100
Subject: Re: Pythonification of the asterisk-based collection packing/unpacking syntax
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Eelco <hoogendoorn.eelco@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thats not a fair point, but more nitpicking. Yes, I should have been
> more precise: in python, 'whitespace' is not a single beast like in
> most languages, but newlines have a special meaning. I was obviously
> not talking about those. Want to try again?

In that case I can't think of any, but at least now you've clarified
the question (by not denying the rest of it). It was somewhat
ambiguous.

ChrisA