<p>Perhaps it could be made an optional thing to enable; for example, some languages by default do dynamic typing, but with an option contained as the first statement of the file can enforce static typing.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 10, 2011 10:57 PM, "Yingjie Lan" <<a href="mailto:lanyjie@yahoo.com">lanyjie@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> :And if we require {} then truly free indentation should be OK too! But<br>
> <br>> :it wouldn't be Python any more.<br>> <br>> Of course, but not the case with ';'. Currently ';' is optional in Python,<br>> But '{' is used for dicts. Clearly, ';' and '{' are different in magnitude.<br>
> <br>> So the decision is: shall we change ';' from optional to mandatory<br>> to allow free line splitting?<br>> <br>> Yingjie<br>> <br>> -- <br>> <a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list</a><br>
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