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[phil hunt]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:05:58 GMT, Courageous <jkraska at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>And then, when you begin to flesh out your code, you would have to 
>>get rid of the extraneous passes you didn't want to add (assuming 
>>you are like me) in the first place. So the with-pass version 
>>requires more effort, and is more verbose, for no good reason.
>
>The reasons are related to the implementation and not the design
>of Python, I believe.

Oh?

Can it really be hard to modify python so that pass is optional?

The relvant file is grammar, line 68 of which reads:

   suite: simple_stmt | NEWLINE INDENT stmt+ DEDENT

I wonder if I could change this to something like:

   suite: simple_stmt | NEWLINE INDENT stmt+ DEDENT | NEWLINE

(It's current;ly compiling; i will get back on this)

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