Pseudocode in the wikipedia

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:02:53 -0500, Gabriel Cooper wrote:
> Ron_Adam wrote:
> 
>>To me ":=" could mean to create a copy of an object...  or should it
>>be "=:" ?
>>
>>Or how about ":=)" to mean is equal and ":=(" to mean it's not.
>>
>>Then there is ";=)", to indicate 'True', and ':=O' to indicate 'False'
>>  
>>
> Not to mention "(_ | _)" for asserts!

Your ass is your identity function.

Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar  3 2005, 17:32:12) 
[GCC 3.4.3  (Gentoo Linux 3.4.3, ssp-3.4.3-0, pie-8.7.6.6)] on linux2
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>>> 25
25
>>> (_ | _)
25
>>> 

There's clearly some interesting biometrics research to be done here,
although there is a well-known ass-capturing attack based on readily
commercially available machines from Xerox that might make it hard to make
an ass-based identity system resistant to attacks.