On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2013-08-29 10:31, Chris Angelico wrote: >> but putting semicolons at the ends of Python statements is as >> useless as putting ((((lots of (((irritating (((superfluous >> (((parentheses))))))))))))) in your C++ code. The parser won't mind, >> but subsequent programmers will wonder what these unnecessary >> syntactic elements are for. > > That would would be a lisp programmer writing C++ code? :-)
Isn't that what LISP stands for? Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses? :) I shouldn't talk, though. Never used LISP for anything serious - nearest I've done is to use Scheme to tinker with GNU Lilypond. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
