another near-sighted, time-wasting syntax enhancement idea

[Mark Hadfield]

"Carl Banks" <idot at vt.edu> wrote in message
news:e395b886.0206051956.5f447e9b at posting.google.com...

> Two colons after the class (or whatever) definition means the block
> continues until EOF and is not indented.  Good for big, long classes
> that take up a whole module.  Been suggested before, I'm sure.

Yes, but the BDFL used his time machine to erase all traces of the
offender...

...No, it's never been suggested before.

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