slightly OT: BUT NEEDs to be said

[A. Lloyd Flanagan]

"Dave Brueck" <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.362.1081179965.20120.python-list at python.org>...
> I remember that one time the user filters were suspected by some outsiders, and
> Guido privately threatened to introduce mandatory curly braces around code
> blocks if we as a group didn't convince people "on the outside" that the
> filters didn't exist - hence the big conditional operator debate of '03. We
> actually got assigned sides in that debate - didn't even get to pick them
> ourselves.
> 

OK, Dave, which side am I supposed to take on this one?  I seem to
have missed the memo...