Docstrings considered too complicated

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Feb 28 17:10:02 EST 2010


In article <4b889e3d$0$27844$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano  <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:51:17 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>
>> The only possible exception to this I can think of is when there is some
>> non-obvious side-effect (i.e. language and/or hardware is
>> "misfeatured"):
>> 
>>                 mov 	A,B    ; Moving A into B also will also arm
>>                                ; the nuclear warhead if the CPU is
>>                                ; hotter than 110C
>
>I had an embedded device that did *just that*, but only on Tuesdays.

Thus explaining why some people never can get the hang of Tuesdays.
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