[Python-ideas] Making colons optional?

[Riobard Zhan]

On 6-Feb-09, at 12:07 PM, Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
>
> In any event, as several people have suggested, there's basically zero
> likelihood of Python ever being changed to make colons optional.  And
> there doesn't even have to be a rational basis for that.

I understand the nearly impossible likelihood; entrenched habits are  
really difficult to change, especially when there seems no obvious gain.

The last sentence is very true (even in a broader sense; not limited  
to language design). It sometimes made me very sad.