[Python-ideas] Making stars optional? (was: Making colons optional?)

[Terry Reedy]

Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Bruce Leban <bruce at leapyear.org> wrote:
>> I apologize for leaving the :-) out in my original post.
> 
> *blush*

No need to blush, really.  This question really has been asked by naive 
newbies who did not notice (as you pointed out) that the no-star math 
notation *depends* on single-char var names.