pre-PEP for optional 'pass'

[David C. Ullrich]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:42:00 -0700, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com>
wrote:

>jepler at unpythonic.net wrote:
>
>>     [2, 3, 5, 7, 9, ...]
>> would generate successive primes.
>
>Pretty lousy code, since 9 is not prime.  :-)

No, that's the beauty of it. Any moron could design
something to generate primes from a hint like 
"[2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ...]"; it takes a truly brilliant 
compiler to recognize that "[2, 3, 5, 7, 9, ...]" was 
an attempt to write down the first five primes and 
respond accordingly.

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