[Python-ideas] Making colons optional?

[Riobard Zhan]

On 6-Feb-09, at 4:10 AM, Leif Walsh wrote:
> the folks on the other side seem to have a good
> argument in that "semicolons are optional; [sic] why aren't colons?"

That's exactly the point. Explain the inconsistency, please.

Hints for [sic] part: use semicolons for one-liners; ditto for colons.  
That's why making them "optional". A colon and a semicolon are used in  
this one-liner.