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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 22:02:51 +1000
Subject: Re: semicolon at end of python's statements
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Duncan Booth
<duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Someone I knew actually used these definitions when writing C in a Pascalish, Algol68ish
> style (if I remembered them correctly):
>
> #define IF if(((
> #define AND ))&&((
> #define OR )||(
> #define THEN ))){
> #define ELSE }else{
> #define FI }

Because s/he thought it made for better code, or as a joke? Usually I
see this sort of thing as the latter...

ChrisA