[Tutor] what is wrong with this syntax?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 19 May 2010 03:29:46 am spir ☣ wrote:
> (Fortunately, python 3.2, planned for April 1, 2011, will be informed
> that "the" is an english article. This is possible since there is no
> ambiguity with "thé" (fr), thank to Python's clever
> diacritic-awareness. Only remains then the problematic case of "a".)

I know you are joking, but that's exactly what Apple's Hypertalk 
programming language did. In Hypertalk, you could write:

  get the second field
  put it before the third field 
  go to the last card of the next background

or:

  get second field
  put it before third field 
  go to last card of next background



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Steven D'Aprano