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Tue Apr 17 11:01:53 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/091828.html

Tim Howarth wrote:

> Being lazy, I wondered if something like the following was possible in
> Python?

Hopefully not.  In every language that kind of syntax has been
introduced, it has only led to trouble.  It saves a small amount of
typing (and not very much) at the expense of a lack of clarity and the
addition of ambiguity.

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