is it possible to remove the ':' symbol in the end of linesstarting with 'if', 'while' etc?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:

> openopt at ukr.net wrote:

8< ---------------- request to remove colon ----------------------

> Won't happen. There have been plenty of discussions about this, and while
> technically not necessary, the colon is usually considered "optically
> pleasing". So - it will stay. 

It is also used by text editors to make indentation of the next line happen...

- Hendrik