A counter-proposal to __future__ in PEP 236

[Steve Williams]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> "Lloyd Sommerer" <lsommerer at sewardweb.com> wrote in message
> news:3A9FBE5C.95615241 at sewardweb.com...
> [snip]
> Actually, colons are used, for readability, in various situations where
> it's quite rare for the suite to follow on the same line -- who ever
> does that with 'class Name:', for example?
>
> Alex

In 'if' statements I whisper a quiet 'then' and the fingers type ':'.  A
quiet 'is defined as' also works.