Why not allow empty code blocks?

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:
> If Forth had come out of a computer science department and Lisp had
> been invented by an astronomer, Lisp would still be the easier
> language to use.

It is quite astounding how Lisp is steadily being reinvented by the
down-to-earth programming community. It was famously observed by Paul
Graham in 2002 (<URL: http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html>). The
evolution has kept on going since then:

 * Closures are everywhere (C++, C#, Java).

 * XML is being replaced by JSON.

Python, of course, is part of that evolution.


Marko