[Python-ideas] Making colons optional?

spir denis.spir at free.fr
Fri Feb 6 10:21:19 CET 2009


Le Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:23:47 -0500,
Scott Dial <scott+python-ideas at scottdial.com> a écrit :

> Riobard Zhan wrote:
> > Your strong association with "here comes a suite" should come from
> > indentation, that's how Python works.
> 
> Your argument makes no sense, since an indention does not automatically
> indicate a suite. We as programmers regularly indent line-continuations
> for the sake of code readability, and we rarely break lines after a
> colon. 
[...]

Your argument makes no sense, because it adresses semi-colons as well.
Do you really mean semi-colons must be compulsary for the sake of readibility?

Denis
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