In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Zeljko Vrba wrote: > Actually, after I learned Python, I value "funny squiggles" in other > languages even more. It's very annoying, for example, that I can't split > a long line in the following way: > > print a + b + > c + d > print "other statement" > > I guess I'm required to insert some unneccessary () around the long expression > to disable the white space parsing..
They are not unneccesary. At least not in Python. Unless you use the line continuation with trailing '\' which is a bit uglier than parenthesis (IMHO). And you want to trade occasional parenthesis for mandatory curly braces? I guess it leads to much more braces or other explicit end markers for suits than the few "unneccessary" parenthesis one has to use to group long expressions. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list