"John Machin" <sjm...con.net> wrote: > Point (2): Backspace??? YAGNI --- backspace hasn't been much use for > anything (except when typing text) since the days when in order to get > a bold letter (say X) on a character impact printer, one would > transmit X\bX\bX ...
ooooooh! Ugly! Almost as bad as, on a golf ball printer: "I am a little nodding man, I always nod my head..." followed by an infinite loop of shift-in, shift-out characters. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list