Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > On 11 Aug 2009, at 11:43, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> AFAIK it is a widely-used convention in the Ruby world. > Also in Scheme. And also in FORTH. See page 174 of the "Thinking FORTH" PDF, online version of the 1984 book. Or on this classic bumper sticker: FORTH LOVE? IF HONK THEN /larry/