On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 14:54, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Steve D'Aprano ><steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 01:40 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> You know, you don't HAVE to economize on letters. It's okay to call >> your parameters "prompt" instead of "prmt". Remember, that's part of >> your API. >> >> >> Whn u wste vwels lik that, dn't b srprsd whn u run ot n hav shrtg of vwel wth >> nt nuff 4 vrybdy. >> > >And then English will turn into an abjad like Arabic. Yes, I see how >it is. Python is a sneaky plan by Islamic extremists to make us use up >all our vowels. > >(I'd end the post there, except that I've learned from past experience >that there is no statement so ridiculous that people will know for >sure that you're joking. So for the humour-impaired: THIS POST WAS A >JOKE. Okay? Good.) > >
Gotta watch out for all those Islamic extremists. Somewhere along the line when I wasn't paying attention, they got us all using Arabic numerals. Roger Christman Pennsylvania State University -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list