Larry Wall's comment on python...

[Greg Ewing]

Jacob Hallen wrote:

> Please note that I didn't say anything about block
> delimiters or parentheses in this. I think they were put into programming
> languages to make it easy to write fast compilers.


I'm not sure you should lump parentheses in with
block delimiters in that statement. They've been
in use by mathematicians for centuries before
compilers were invented, and, used in moderation,
I don't think they have any adverse effect on
readability.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg