Why use backticks?

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Paul Watson wrote:
> Do you think there would be any interest in having backticks mean the same
> thing as in Perl?
> 
> x = `ls -al`
> 
> would turn into x = os.popen('ls -al') with an rstrip('\n') on each line?

I'm pretty sure the BDFL would run away screaming from
this idea...

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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