Hello,

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:47:08 +1100
Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:

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> You know Paul, as an advocate for braces, you're doing a great job of 
> convincing me that they aren't necessary.

I'm an advocate for braces in as much as I'm an advocate for 2+2=4.
Braces exist, and used by people who need them. What to advocate here?

> Have you considered that rather than a new dialect of Python all you 
> need is a source code pre-processor or transformation?

ROFL. Not just me, everyone else considered that, and has been
implementing it like that for decades. I just noticed that people who
implement it, don't seem to describe well what they are doing, and make
hilarious mistakes. As I have only limited view of such projects, I
asked here whether there was ever someone who articulated well enough
what they wanted to achieve. I got my answer from you, Steven, and I
trust it, because I know that you're an old-timer here, and thorough
participant of the discussions. (And I appreciate that!)

And I'm happy about discussion bikeshedding/scope-creeping we all had
here, but there's little else to it. (I.e. as there's no such a
proposal, I just put writing such in my TODO list, that's all.)

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-- 
Best regards,
 Paul                          mailto:[email protected]
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