<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b>Hi Matt,</b></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><b><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br></span></b></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b>=======================================================</b></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Matt Joiner <anacrolix@gmail.com></span><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><b><br></b><font
class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The "trailing \" workaround is nonobvious. Wrapping in () is noisy and</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">already heavily used by other syntactical structures. </font><br><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b>=======================================================</b></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b>How about only require indentation</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b>to freely break lines? Here is an example:</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b>x = firstpart
* secondpart #line breaks here</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>+ anotherpart #continue by indentation</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>+ stillanother #continue on.</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b>#until here, another line starts by dedentation </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b>y = some_expression </b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><b>- another_one</b></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; " class="yui_3_2_0_16_131488110604057">All this would be
completely compatible with former code, while</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; " class="yui_3_2_0_16_131488110604057">having almost free line breaking! Plus, indentation makes it pretty.</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; " class="yui_3_2_0_16_131488110604057"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; " class="yui_3_2_0_16_131488110604057">Really hope Python can have freedom in breaking lines.</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; " class="yui_3_2_0_16_131488110604057"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; " class="yui_3_2_0_16_131488110604057">Yingjie</div></div></div></body></html>