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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: += in ada
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:09:46 +0200
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler fed this fish to the penguins on Thursday 09=20
>October 2003 12:42 pm:
>
>> Inhouse we have a term for that: "Historical reason". ;)
>>=20
>> That means "dirty, little thing that's just there and nobody wants to
>> touch it, because if you'd do, it'll surely break some time".
>>
>        Regretably, in the case of Python, it was not "historical =
reason"...=20
>The BDFL succumbed to the demands of the C-slaves

Exactly. This *is* a Historical Reason: The dirty little thing was
added because it was already there somewhere else. :)


Vinzent.