Necessity of ``pass''

[Mark Nottingham]

I understand your frustration, but the inconveniece of adding a pass is
slight. If such a basic semantic feature of the language were optional,
things, IMHO, would go to hell in a handbasket. One of the major pluses of
Python over Perl in my book is the *lack* of being able to do everything
fourteen different ways; it confuses other people who have to read your
code.

> if foo:
>    # bar
>    # baz
> qux
>
> E.g. if you're developing code and just commented out a (not yet
> worked out branch) to work on a different part of the program.
> Requireing pass here is unecessary.
>
> I didn't ask for pass to vanish completely, i merely asked for it
> to optional instead of mandatory.