Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Ron Adam]

Georg Brandl wrote:
> Ron Adam wrote:
>> Michael Hobbs wrote:
>>
>>> The same problem that is solved by not having to type parens around the 
>>> 'if' conditional, a la C and its derivatives. That is, it's unnecessary 
>>> typing to no good advantage, IMHO. I was coding in Ruby for several 
>>> months and got very comfortable with just typing the if conditional and 
>>> hitting return, without any extra syntax. When I came back to Python, I 
>>> found that I felt annoyed every time I typed the colon, since it 
>>> obviously isn't required. The FAQ says that the colon increases 
>>> readability, but I'm skeptical. The indentation seems to provide more 
>>> than enough of a visual clue as to where the if conditional ends.

>> I'm not sure why '\'s are required to do multi-line before the colon.
> 
> Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
> 
> Georg

A bit of a circular answer.

     Why the rule? -> So not to break the rule?


I would guess this probably is more applicable in this case.

     Explicit is better than implicit.


Ron