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by thiagoharry 3567 days ago
Why would you want to multiply by 1 or sum zero? You probably wouldn't need to do it, but computers and scripts aren't so smart as people and always follow code literally. For them is important a language having less irregularities and exceptional rules. If "" is a valid command and you have the syntax "time [COMMAND];", why not allow "time;"?