OFFTOPIC: *-ly y'rs,

[James Logajan]

"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:
> 
> Agent Drek <drek at MonsterByMistake.Com> writes:
> > Where did they come from and are they patented :)
> > How can one join the signoff-ly club?
> 
> The first occurrence, at least in the python-list archives, was quite
> a while ago:
> 
>   in-any-case-the-best-christmas-present-i-got-today!-ly y'rs - tim
>         -- Tim Peters, 29 Dec 91
> 
> I imagine Tim probably used this on other mailing lists before
> python-list.

Unless that sign off is incorporated into Python 2 to indicate termination
of a block rather than indent/dedent, thousands of programmers will avoid
using Python.