Perl is worse!

[Martijn Faassen]

Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Some expressions that have no side effects are very handy, by the way.
> For example, prepending and appending a """ to a block of lines (thus
> turning them all into an expression that is a single constant string)
> may be a useful way to "comment out" the whole block.

Aah, docstrings; that's a good exception to the 'it only makes sense when
there's a call happening' rule I proposed. I figured there must
be some!

Regards,

Martijn
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