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You're a strange man, Mr. Peters, a strange man...
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Tim Peters <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> I'm afraid you missed the joke ;-) While you believe spaces are
> required on both sides of an em dash, there is no consensus on this
> point. For example, most (but not all) American authorities say /no/
> spaces should be used. That's the joke. In writing a line about "only
> one way to do it", I used a device (em dash) for which at least two ways
> to do it (with spaces, without spaces) are commonly used, neither of
> which is obvious -- and deliberately picked a third way just to rub it in.
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> This will never change ;-)
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