On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I'm guessing that can only have come from the mindset of C/C++ programmers, > where this sort of thing is considered acceptable:
Maybe. The journal reference in the second link I posted dates the practice back to at least 1975, a time predating K&R C, when it was most notable as the language that Unix was written in. I wouldn't be surprised if this actually originated from Fortran. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
