Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Tim Chase]

>>> Anyway, the FAQ answer seems to be a weak argument to me.
>> I agree. I was expecting something more technical to justify
>> the colon, not just that it looks better.
> 
> I think it is outstanding that the colon's justification is
> asthetic rather than technical (though I too had expected to see
> a technical excuse for it).

Though by such justifications based on asthetics, the interpreter 
should also enforce that class-names begin with capital letters, 
that camel-case is eschewed in favor of underscore_separation. 
And perhaps enforce a 79-column character limit on text.  Perhaps 
also put a cap on the number of punctuation characters on a given 
line as well to prevent the code from looking too much like 
Perl... ;*)

A few arbitrary warts per-dictum of BDFL are fine though...it 
still looks much cleaner compared to PHP & Perl ;-)

Shaving-with-Occam's-disposable-razor'ly yers...

-tkc