[Python-ideas] with statement syntax forces ugly line breaks?

[Georg Brandl]

Am 09.09.2010 01:19, schrieb Greg Ewing:
> MRAB wrote:
>> On 08/09/2010 22:30, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> 
>>> I've sometimes wondered if we should consider the idea of making line
>>> continuation implicit between keywords and their associated colons.
>>>
>> If a colon was omitted by mistake, how much later would the parser
>> report a syntax error?
> 
> It might be best to allow this only if the continuation
> lines are indented at least as far as the starting line.

That is dangerous, it makes the whitespace rules more complicated.

Georg

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