Gabriel Genellina wrote:
I see the point of the OP. Couldn't the new-line be used as an
equivalent of ':', for example, do you find this difficult to read:
if a == 3
do_something()
if a == 3: do_something()
Yes, it could be done, there are no technical reasons to always force to
use ":". But AFAIK the main reasons to keep ":" are internal consistency
(an inner block always starts with ":"; incidentally, that's easier to
handle for editors) and legibility (the ":" stands for itself and has a
meaning)
Legibility ?
But one could make the same argument for curly brackets, and we seem to be
doing fine without them !
I have become so used to the power of indenting in python that I keep
forgetting the colon, and this is getting worse as I do more python, not
better. Maybe I'll write myself a "pre-compiler" that add the colons where
the compiler needs them :-)
Yves.
http://www.SollerS.ca
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