[Python-ideas] Making colons optional?

[Curt Hagenlocher]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Riobard Zhan <yaogzhan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> You are assuming colons improve readability, which I disagree.

"Readability" isn't an entirely objective metric.  But making colons
optional would mean that you're now looking at two different kinds of
code -- with colons and without.  And it's extremely hard for me to
imagine that having two different kinds of code would not harm
readability.

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Curt Hagenlocher
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