On 8-Feb-09, at 4:43 AM, Mike Meyer wrote:

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Wait a minute... What do you mean by a "list" of statements? Is this one list of length 2, or two lists of length 1?

a = 1 b = 2

Two lists of length one. Each list is terminated by the new line.

If you think the above code is composed of two lists of length 1 instead of one list of length 2, then I guess probably we have completely different views of how to group things as a list. That probably explained why I feel very strange about your definition in the beginning. I'm not going to argue with you on this. I might never see the point of thinking the following code a = 1; b = 2 c = 3 as a list of length 2 + a list of length 1, instead of a list of length 3. If I take your approach, I might treat [a, b, c] as two lists, too.