Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Ron Adam]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:24:50 +0100, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
> 
>> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>>
>>> No it doesn't -- look again at the example given above.  It's
>>> legal syntax in Python but doesn't have the semantics implied by
>>> the example.
>> Sorry, I don't understand -- what is the difference between the
>> example as it is and the implied semantics of it?
> 
> Inform 6 "x == blue or red or yellow" is equivalent to the Python
>  
> x == blue or x == red or x == yellow

Maybe it should have been expressed as:

     x == (blue or red or yellow)


Cheers,
    Ron