On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:18:05AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> "use D'oh" will be missed :-), but sometimes legacy stuff needs to be
> expunged to get people to modernize. 

Of all the legacy things which get abused, this is the one
I've never seen.


> Plus, ' is already widely-used as a single-quote, so

That's a good argument.  Unambiguating the language and simplifying
the parser.


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