Are line continuations needed?

[Heather Coppersmith]

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 14:05:29 GMT,
wallacethinmintr at eircom.net (Russell Wallace) wrote:

> Python lets you continue a single logical line across more than
> one physical line, either by putting a \ at the end or letting
> it happen automatically with an incomplete infix operator.

> I'm wondering how often is this feature needed? Would there be
> any problems if it weren't part of the language?

Completely contrived:

    if a == b or b == c or c == d or d == e or e == f or f == g ....

No, I can't imagine this sort of thing actually coming up, and
yes, it's "fixable" with some extra parenthesese:

    if (a == b or b == c or c == d) or (d == e or e == f
        or f == g ....

Regards,
Heather

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Heather Coppersmith
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