variable declaration

[Cameron Laird]

In article <1gr9ltj.1tiisn018pnse6N%aleaxit at yahoo.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Robert Brewer <fumanchu at amor.org> wrote:
>
>> Bah. Nothing teaches you a new language like having your job depend upon
>> it. People who study languages merely for "personal growth" learn 50% of
>> the syntax and 1% of the concepts, and then fritter that learning away
>> on inconsequential newsgroups the world over.
>
>I disagree.  I studied Python, even though it had nothing to do with my
>job, just with the idea of using it on hobby projects; yet I believe I
>can reasonably claim to have learned more than 50% of the syntax and 1%
>of the concepts, even though you might claim that, whatever percentage
>it may be, it's "frittered away on inconsequential newsgroups".
>
>
>Alex

We learned long ago to treat you, Alex, as an exception.
While it's rather unpythonic to have implicit rules, let's
forgive Robert for failing to mention the one that regards
you as an outlier for inferential purposes.