On 2018-06-25, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> And the specific line you reference is *especially* a joke, one which > flies past nearly everyone's head: > > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. > > Notice the dashes? There are *two* traditional ways to use an pair > of em- dashes for parenthetical asides: > > 1. With no space--like this--between the parenthetical aside and the text; > > 2. With a single space on either side -- like this -- between the aside > and the rest of the text. > > Not satisfied with those two ways, Tim invented his own. > > https://bugs.python.org/issue3364 Brilliant! I don't know how I missed that. I'm not sure which would be more impressive: that Tim thought up the joke as described, or that it was made up ex post facto. Either one is brilliant. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I once decorated my at apartment entirely in ten gmail.com foot salad forks!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
