syntax difference

[Ed Kellett]

On 2018-06-19 11:21, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Isn't it nice how comments, being terminated exclusively by
> end-of-line, allow the introduction of subtle bugs? Let's see how many
> people spot the (presumably deliberate) bug in Steve's code here.

Hardly subtle.

It does also make them considerably easier to remove from code. I think
we're all--still--missing the larger point that "easy to remove" is a
completely stupid metric for judging language features. Seriously. Not a
little bit stupid. What would Python look like if every new feature had
to be possible to grep out?

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