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

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Thu Feb 22 23:29:52 EST 2007


On 2007-02-22, tac-tics <tactics40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tip: don't try learning perl.
>
> I agree the colon is largely redundant, but it's not
> unreasonable.

A certain amount of redundancy in languages (artificial or
natrual) is a good thing.  It makes error detection and
correction far easier.

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