How about "print file=yonder, yo, de, do"

[Steve Holden]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> 

[print >> stuff snipped]

> I have this deep psychoanalytical theory of mine about why >>
> has such invariably-ugly connections: it looks like a sergeant's
> chevron would if the sergeant wearing it was lying down, having
> been knocked out cold by a well-placed punch.  A sufficient
> fraction of language designers must have suffered under sadistic
> training-sergeants during military service, to imbue the collective
> unconscious of the language-designers set with repressed yearnings
> for vengeance, which find symbolic expression in the "knocked-down
> chevron" symbol.  Wow, Jung would be proud of me.
> 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't a sergeant have THREE chevrons?

> As a side effect, it's now clear that the proper pronunciation
> of '>>' is "take-that-you-bastard".  (Study is ongoing on the
> proper pronunciation of >>= in Haskell, but the current theory
> suggests a dying 'Aaaaaargh...' [cfr 'Holy Grail']).
> 
> Alex

I laughed 'til the tears ran down my legs...

regards
 Steve
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