[Python-ideas] Making colons optional?

[Riobard Zhan]

On 6-Feb-09, at 4:32 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Riobard Zhan writes:
>
>> "Once someone discovers that they *don't have to* add the colons, and
>> it doesn't affect the operation of their program, those colons  
>> will, I
>> predict, become much less frequent. "
>>
>> Thank God, finally we are on the right track. Making colons optional
>> is just the first step to kill both semicolons and colons all  
>> together.
>
> I think the language you are looking for is called "Haskell".

I think the mailing list I am posting to is called "Python Ideas".