I think I have almost the same feeling as Naomi and Gregory. After 10+ years of print statement being an error, typing it as one remains my SECOND most common syntax error. My FIRST most common is omitting the colon that introduces blocks... Which we also don't actually need. I've made that mistake for 20+ years. And I never used 0.8 or whatever version didn't have colon, only since 1.4. Despite my occasional typos, I don't think I want the inconsistency of being able to make calls either with or without parens. I've used TCL, REXX, Ruby, REBOL, Haskell, and bash with pleasure, and enjoy their "arguments after a space." I've used Perl even more, and never enjoyed it. :-) But different languages are pleasant in their different consistency, and this feels out of place in modern Python.