From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T03:34:00+09:00
Subject: [OT] "poetry" mode (was: Re: What does this construct mean?)

Hi --

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> which just reads quite nicely without parens and last, but not least, those 
> of
> us who've detest any extra chars in code like '$', ';', and even parens. 
> they
> don't call it 'poetry' mode for nothing ;-)

Actually, they do :-)  This came up on IRC recently, and I still don't
know the answer: why is the non-use of parentheses referred to as
"poetry mode", when plenty of poems contain parentheses?  It's never
made any sense to me.


David

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