Not only was it an April fool's joke, but it wasn't mine! It was forged by an insider. I know by who, but won't tell, because it was so good. It shows that I can trust to delegate way more to the Python community than I think I can! :-) BTW, the biggest give-away that it wasn't mine was the absence of my standard sign-off line: --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)