Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Daniel Dittmar]

Michael Hobbs wrote:
> But if the BDFL insists that it remains, why not 
> take the converse approach? That is, assume that the expression ends at 
> the colon, not at the newline. That would make this type of statement 
> possible:

I suggested something like this a while back. The answer then was that 
error messages in case of a forgotten colon would be misleading, at the 
wrong position, or both.

Today:

if a or b
     print x

File "colontest.py", line 2
     if a or b
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Daniel