another near-sighted, time-wasting syntax enhancement idea

[Carl Banks]

Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote in message news:<Xns92265AD72BE0cliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82>...
> idot at vt.edu (Carl Banks) wrote in 
> news:e395b886.0206051956.5f447e9b at posting.google.com:
> > class BigLongClassThatRunsUntilEOF::
> > 
> > def __init__ (self):
> >     pass
> > 
> > def whatever (self):
> >     pass
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> i don't see any advantages for that. it's a very suptile difference almost 
> not viewable those "::", it makes code bad readable.


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                                                 "against the right "
                                                 "margin can be pretty "
                                                 "unreadable itself.")


> doesn't your editor has auto indentation? don't use notepad an switch to a 
> real editor <wink>.

I'm pretty sure if it's a feature, emacs has it.  <wink>.


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CARL BANKS