[Python-ideas] Making colons optional?

[Riobard Zhan]

On 6-Feb-09, at 4:50 AM, Leif Walsh wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano  
> <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> "Fairness" is not a language design principle.
>
> Hopefully it would be a principle on which discussion could be based.
> I was hoping more that the colon-supporters would come up with a good
> counter to that argument, because I can't.

What bothers me here is that colon-lovers seem to assume their choice  
is *the* choice.