March 16, 2003
5:04 p.m.
On Sat David Goodger <goodger@python.org> wrote:
Some people write "&c" instead of "etc". Should the parser generate an error for this? I think not.
David Priest wrote:
Just a quick note: &c doesn't fall into the charent pattern.
It does if followed by a semicolon. Splitting hairs can be dangerous; may result in a chain reaction.
Much to your relief, I'll drop the matter now.
Good. -- David Goodger http://starship.python.net/~goodger Programmer/sysadmin for hire: http://starship.python.net/~goodger/cv