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PEP308: Yet another syntax proposal

Paul Rubin http
Wed Feb 12 12:28:01 EST 2003 
Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:
> > Those are the Secret Masters.  Of course they don't go around
> > proclaiming "x and y or z" to be the Secret Master construction.
> > If they did that, it wouldn't be much of a secret!
> 
> Are you just trying to crack a joke, or are you saying that those of
> us who claim to not like "_ and _ or _" use it when noone is looking?

No I'm saying that those who -do- like the and/or thing are actually
the Secret Masters.  They just don't tell us that they're the Secret
Masters, because then it wouldn't be secret any more.  Sometimes they
even keep it secret from themselves!
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