Named code blockes

[jcm]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:

> One genius clamored for a huge new mechanism that would at
> last, in the Plenitude of Glory, let him write "let x = y"
> versus "set x = y" so he'd get ``declarations'' -- and then,
> when somebody showed him how easily he could set things up
> so as to write "let.x = y" and "set.x = y", he claimed his
> coworkers would kill him if he programmed that way.  Well
> isn't that obvious, that being able to have a SPACE there
> instead of a PERIOD is the be-all, end-all of programming?!
> Isn't it _absolutely_ obvious that placing a period there
> will lead to justified homicide...?

Well now you're just being foolish.