Parrot... is Python dead now?

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Sun Apr 1 21:20:48 EDT 2001


"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote:
>     while left_angle_right_angle:
> 
> was a significant step backwards from both Perl's
> 
>     while (<>) {
> 
> and Python's
> 
>     for line in sys.stdin.xreadlines():

Except, that I had always thought the names of the < and > characters were 
"bra" and "ket", which would naturally lead to

   while braket:

no?



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