On 2015-01-17, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>  Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Every time I think I would like to learn a new language, I quite quickly run
>> into some obvious feature that Python has but the newer language lacks, and
>> I think "bugger this for a game of soldiers" and abandon it.
>
> Wow.  Another wonderful English phrase to add to my vocabulary.  That's 
> up there with Bob's your uncle :-)

Yup, that one's brilliant.  While it's pretty much obvious what
phrases like that mean when one stumbles across them for the first
time, I find I sometimes don't have a very good grasp of where they
fall on the offensive<->polite scale...

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Grant

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