To all of you who participated in this (not so fruitful) discussion, I sincerely thank you for your precious time and thought. Although we failed to yield anything very useful for later Python users to clear up the issue of colons, I do appreciate your effort and patience. If there is any bad emotions generated during the process, please do not take it personally; that's not the purpose---after all, we all want to make our beloved language better and better. Sincerely yours, Riobard On 8-Feb-09, at 5:48 AM, spir wrote:

Le Sun, 8 Feb 2009 03:17:25 -0330, Riobard Zhan <yaogzhan@gmail.com> a écrit :

Hello Riobard,

You know that I rather agree with you on the point that colon would rather be optional, that the purpose is similar to that of semi- colons, that the opponents' arguments are not convincing at all (I bet from the form of these arguments, that if colons were optional in python, most of them would fight against a proposition to make them obligatory ;-). Still, this debate goes nowhere now, and you just kill your own credibility. It's time to stop. Not only python will not change on that point, but the discussion does not bring any more clue to help understand the whys and hows of syntax/semantics.

respecfully, Denis

PS: Have you had a look at cobra? http://cobra-language.com/

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