PEP308: Yet another syntax proposal

[holger krekel]

James J. Besemer wrote:
> 
> holger krekel wrote:
> >>Doh.
> >>
> >>You silly.
> > 
> > 
> > This is not a great way to argue.  Despite the huge amount of
> > discussions we have managed to have a rather friendly discussion. 
> > Why do you want to change it? 
> 
> I apologize.  I meant no disrespect.
> 
> Although you and I have had friendly conversations in the past, I see here, 
> after a hiatus, I assumed a familiarity that was not merited.

you didn't say "silly" to me.  but excuse is welcome anyway. 

> > As if Andrew doesn't know that.  To me it's silly to read his
> > paragraph as if he was just complaining about 'writeln' and
> > missed the point. 
> 
> Somebody other than Andrews was complaining about 'writeln'.

In this thread we just developed?  There it was Andrew Dalke, i think.
I think good real-world examples and some statistics can't hurt for
sorting out the situation, btw. 

anyway, i try to step back from further PEP-308 discussions for the 
time beeing (second try).  I just go to sleep that should help. 
One last note.  This discussion has helped me on several accounts
and especially recognizing that i like python to *not* be an
expression-oriented language.  Let nice statements and indentation 
do the job so we don't regularly have to stop parsing some 
super-clever expressions manually. 

regards,

    holger