inclusive-lower-bound, exclusive-upper-bound (was Re: Range Operation pre-PEP)

[Greg Ewing]

Andrew Maizels wrote, giving examples of code where requiring
explicit line continuation markings would be tedious:
> 
>         for i in item
>         where i.custnum = c.custnum and
>               i.duedate < today - 60 and
>               i.open <> 0:
>             over60 += i.open.
>         end.

A couple of ideas come to mind:

* Allow implicit line continuations anywhere you have what
  is obviously a syntactically incomplete structure (e.g.
  an expression ending with a binary operator).

* Allow a statement to have indented continuation lines.

>         if over60 > 50 then do:

Do you really need both "then" and "do" there? Seems a 
tad wordy to me.

By the way, I really like the idea of having relational
DB constructs integrated with the language. Few things
suck more ferociously than embedded SQL, in my opinion!
I wish you luck!

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