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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:57:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:24:01 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> def foo(a, b, c) :
> 	if a :
> 		if b :
> 			if c :
> 				doThis()
> 
> That looks unfinished to me.  So I will add a "return" at the end (with
> a single tab indent, in this case).

A redundant “return” ... kind of like my redundant “#end” comments, except 
yours work in a more restricted set of places ...

> Don't you ever just accept that a language is the way it is, and it is
> perfectly useable that way?

Of course not.

> Or think that perhaps other people in the world know better than you do
> about how they want their language to work?

And vice versa.

> Has it never occurred to you that the people behind a given
> language - such as Python - considered various alternatives and decided
> that making it the way they did was the best choice overall for the
> language they wanted?

Barring a few obvious stupidities, yes of course they were, and are, smart 
people.