On 2006-11-13, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Salerno wrote: >> Fredrik Lundh wrote: >>> John Salerno wrote: >>> >>>>> Anyway, the FAQ answer seems to be a weak argument to me. >>>> I agree. I was expecting something more technical to justify the >>>> colon, not just that it looks better. >>> yeah, the whole idea of treating programming languages as an interface >>> between people and computers is really lame. no wonder nobody's using >>> Python for anything. >>> >>> </F> >>> >> >> personally, i don't mind the colon and see no need to lose it, but if we >> are talking in the realm of aesthetics, it actually seems like it would >> be cleaner if it weren't there...sure, at first everyone who is used to >> it might feel like something is missing, or the line is "hanging" open, >> but overall the less characters, the better, right? isn't that why the >> braces are gone? > > No. The braces are gone because they don't assist a reader's > determination of block structure like indentation does.
IMO this works both ways. > Otherwise why > would people write indenting pretty printers for C and the like? Try to follow an indentation marked structure when the structure crosses a page boundary and you can't view the whole structure at once. Sensible placed markers can greatly assist in getting a feel for a structure even if the structure is already properly indented. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
