From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T09:16:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Lang Redesign Feedback

At 8:59 AM +0900 8/26/06, Hal Fulton wrote:
> How delightfully ambiguous. Like the old headline
> "Grandmother of Five Shoots Hole in One" or "Man
> Dies -- Cooked for Queen".

Tom Christiansen (of Perl fame) likes this example of
why the "Oxford comma" is important:

  I'd like to thank my parents, God and Mother Teresa.

-r
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