Why aren't colons optional?

[Courageous]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:40:46 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:

>Edward K. Ream wrote:
>        ...
>> readability than do trailing semicolons.  The only syntax error I
>> regularly make is to forget a trailing colon. After all, newlines
>
>FWIW: me too, despite being a rather good Pythonista by now.  At
>least, because it keeps happening often, I can recognize and fix it
>instantly. 

The worse thing is switching back to C or Java and having to correct
all the colons you've accidentally added to your code. :)

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