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[Ethan Furman]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-11-04, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
>> On 11/3/2010 4:09 PM Seebs said...
>>
>>> What's the token that marks the end of a block, corresponding to the
>>> colon used to introduce it?
>>>
>>
>> My thoughts tend more towards 'can we get Guido to eliminate the colon 
>> requirements' -- The indent level of the next line ought to suffice.
> 
> But without the colon, how are people who write programming editors
> going to know when to increase the indentation level as I enter code?
> 
Hopefully by the keywords used to introduce the block: if, elif, else, 
for, while, with, etc. etc.  It is not legal to start a new indented 
block just by appending a colon to the previous line.

~Ethan~