Larry Wall's comment on python...

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Fri Sep 13 21:33:17 EDT 2002


Ken Seehof wrote:
> Definitely not.  Too wide by far.  You need to reduce the indent to one 
> space.
> 
> #||<--- LOOK HERE, LARRY, THIS IS WHERE THE FUNCTION _*BEGINS*_!
> def fun(args):
>  #||<--- LOOK HERE, LARRY, THIS IS WHERE THE IF-CLAUSE _*BEGINS*_!
>  if ceci or cela:
>   do_this(with_that)
>   [snip a lot of code]
>  #||<--- LOOK HERE, LARRY, THIS IS WHERE THE IF-CLAUSE _*ENDS*_!
> #||<--- LOOK HERE, LARRY, THIS IS WHERE THE FUNCTION _*ENDS*_!

Oh, I didn't recognize this until now.  It's COBOL!  Everything
with a leading # is executable code, right?  ;-)

-Peter




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