A TYPICAL NEWBIE MISTAKE?

[François Pinard]

Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> writes:

> Sometimes colons seem syntactically unnecessary.

Granted, but it is always good for a language to have a bit of redundant
information.  When properly thought, such redundancy prevents various
mistakes from programmers (once they are used to it, of course :-), and often
increase overall legibility.  I much like the redundant colons in Python!

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard