Python 2.0

[Hans Nowak]

On 4 Jun 99, Kumar Balachandran wrote:

> Here is some useful evangelizing (methinks). One of the irritating things about
> Python is the use of whitespace in syntax. Agreed, the code is
> readable without parentheses or braces, but why not have optional
> syntactic sugar such as
> 
> if
> ...
> elif
> ...
> else
> ...
> fi
> 
> def
> ...
> ...
> fed
> 
> 
> while
> ...
> elihw or wend
> 
> 
> 
> for
> ...
> rof
> 
> etc. It makes the language more elegant. When I see code using
> indentation or blank likes to achieve blocking of constructs, it
> reminds me of an old language (FORTRAN I think it was called:-).

If you think it's more elegant, why not try things like this:

if blahblah:
    do_this()
    do_that()
#fi

for x in my_sequence:
    print x
    print booze.append(x)
#rof

Or use #endif, #endfor, etc. People have even "implemented" curly 
braces this way. It's as optional as you can get, and it really 
doesn't require a syntax change.

Veel liefs,

--Hans Nowak (ivnowa at hvision.nl)
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