Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Michael Hobbs]

Robert Kern 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.
>   

Now I see where we disagree. Also gaging from everyone else's reaction, 
I must have some strange no-colon circuitry wired into my brain.

I guess that's it then,
- Mike