Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Robert Kern]

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>  "Robert Kern" <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Michael Hobbs wrote:
>>> True enough. Although, I have to ask how many times you define a new
>>> function only to have Python spit a syntax error out at you saying that
>>> you forgot a colon. It happens to me all the time. (Usually after an
>>> "else") If you'd never notice that the colon was missing if the compiler
>>> didn't point it out, is it really that readable? For me, I tend to get
>>> annoyed at language "features" that I'm constantly tripping over.
>> Never.
> 
> I confess I find myself in the position of a Yorkshire Youngster - I don't
> believe you!

Okay, not often enough or annoyingly enough for me to remember having done so.
Perhaps seven years ago when I started using Python, but not any time recent.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco