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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Even in versions where it was accepted, it made the function execution slower, because the compiler could not be certain which names are local and which are global.</span></blockquote>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Even in versions where it was accepted, it made the function execution slower, because the compiler could not be certain which names <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000">were</font> local and which <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000">were</font> global.</span> </div>
<div><br></div><div>Currently it mixes past and present tenses in a somewhat awkward manner.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
One of the most awful question asked on the newsgroup is why this code:</blockquote></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 20px; ">
One of the most awful <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000">questions</font> asked on the newsgroup is why this code:</p></span>Because it used to just be non-grammatical.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="highlight-python">
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