"George Sakkis" <george.sak...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:de06116c-e77c-47c4-982d-62b48bca5...@j31g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
I'll give the benefit of doubt and assume you're joking rather than trolling. George ************************************************************* Not trolling, my friend! GvR got it right when he discarded the superfluous semicolons from the ends of statements--and then he ADDS superfluous colons to the ends of control statements? It will probably be as much of a shock to you as it was to me when I learned after studying parsing that colons, semicolons, "then"'s and "do"'s, etc., are simply noise tokens that serve no purpose except to clutter up the source. As for enforced indentation, back in the late 60's when I was a programming newbie I remember thinking how cool it would be to just indent the statements controlled by for loops (we didn't have none of them fancy while loops in FORTRAN back then! :-) ) Not too long after that I saw the havoc that a buggy editor could wreak on nicely-formatted source. :-( Formatting held hostage to a significant, invisible whitespace char? An inevitable accident waiting to happen! Not good, Guido; not good at all. That'll do for starters. :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list