Re: is it possible to remove the ':' symbol in the end of lines starting with 'if', 'while' etc?

2007-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-22, tac-tics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tip: don't try learning perl. > > I agree the colon is largely redundant, but it's not > unreasonable. A certain amount of redundancy in languages (artificial or natrual) is a good thing. It makes error detection and correction far easier. --

Re: is it possible to remove the ':' symbol in the end of lines starting with 'if', 'while' etc?

2007-02-22 Thread tac-tics
Tip: don't try learning perl. I agree the colon is largely redundant, but it's not unreasonable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: is it possible to remove the ':' symbol in the end of lines starting with 'if', 'while' etc?

2007-02-22 Thread James Stroud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know to which forum should I post the message > I hope someone related to the Python kernel development will read & > consider the idea > I'm (a former? meanwhile not sure) MATLAB user & it's very annoing > typing each time for example > while i: > print i >

Re: is it possible to remove the ':' symbol in the end of lines starting with 'if', 'while' etc?

2007-02-22 Thread openopt
> Think on the bright side: > > you have to type ":" at the beginning of loop and conditional blocks, > but you don't have to type "end" at the end... you are still saving > two strokes... > ;-)) No, there no profits: instead of 'end' I must type , ':' and backspace in the end of block - so 3 key

Re: is it possible to remove the ':' symbol in the end of lines starting with 'if', 'while' etc?

2007-02-22 Thread justme
On 22 Feb, 11:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know to which forum should I post the message > I hope someone related to the Python kernel development will read & > consider the idea > I'm (a former? meanwhile not sure) MATLAB user & it's very annoing > typing each time for example > while i:

Re: is it possible to remove the ':' symbol in the end of lines starting with 'if', 'while' etc?

2007-02-22 Thread Flavio
On Feb 22, 9:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know to which forum should I post the message > I hope someone related to the Python kernel development will read & > consider the idea > I'm (a former? meanwhile not sure) MATLAB user & it's very annoing > typing each time for example > while

Re: is it possible to remove the ':' symbol in the end of lines starting with 'if', 'while' etc?

2007-02-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know to which forum should I post the message > I hope someone related to the Python kernel development will read & > consider the idea > I'm (a former? meanwhile not sure) MATLAB user & it's very annoing > typing each time for example > while i: > print i >

is it possible to remove the ':' symbol in the end of lines starting with 'if', 'while' etc?

2007-02-22 Thread openopt
I don't know to which forum should I post the message I hope someone related to the Python kernel development will read & consider the idea I'm (a former? meanwhile not sure) MATLAB user & it's very annoing typing each time for example while i: print i ... instead of while i print i