Ben Finney wrote: > \ "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was | > `\ that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful | > _o__) termination of their C programs." -- Robert Firth |
An amusing .sig, but it doesn't address the root cause: As they had no way of testing for the end of a string, in many cases successful termination of their C programs would have been unlikely. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list