-1 This idea seems like it would remove the true readability of
python. Personally it would create more confusion than it would
remove.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Matt Joiner <anacro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +0.5
>
> The "trailing \" workaround is nonobvious. Wrapping in () is noisy and
> already heavily used by other syntactical structures. Since a final
> ':' is needed anyway, i think this would be great.
>
> if a
> and b
> or c:
> do stuff()
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:02 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> On 11/08/2011 05:16, Chris Rebert wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Yingjie Lan<lany...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> :And if we require {} then truly free indentation should be OK too! But
>>>>
>>>> :it wouldn't be Python any more.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, but not the case with ';'. Currently ';' is optional in
>>>> Python,
>>>
>>> I think of it more as that Python deigns to permit semicolons.
>>>
>>>> But '{' is used for dicts. Clearly, ';' and '{' are different in
>>>> magnitude.
>>>>
>>>> So the decision is: shall we change ';' from optional to mandatory
>>>> to allow free line splitting?
>>>
>>> Hell no, considering that the sizable majority of lines *aren't*
>>> split, which makes those semicolons completely redundant to their
>>> accompanying newlines. We'd be practicing poor Huffman coding by
>>> optimizing for the *un*common case. It would also add punctuational
>>> noise to what is otherwise an amazingly clean and readable syntax.
>>> Accidental semicolon omission is (IMO) the most irritating source of
>>> syntax (and, inadvertently, sometimes other more serious) errors in
>>> curly-braced programming languages.
>>>
>> +1
>>>
>>> Such a core syntax feature is not going to be changed lightly (or likely
>>> ever).
>>>
>> I'm glad to hear that. :-)
>>
>> Although Python's use of indentation has its downside, we gain much
>> more then we lose, IMHO.
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