another near-sighted, time-wasting syntax enhancement idea

Chris Liechti cliechti at gmx.net
Thu Jun 6 18:31:13 EDT 2002


idot at vt.edu (Carl Banks) wrote in 
news:e395b886.0206051956.5f447e9b at posting.google.com:
> class BigLongClassThatRunsUntilEOF::
> 
> def __init__ (self):
>     pass
> 
> def whatever (self):
>     pass
> 
> ...
> 
> Two colons after the class (or whatever) definition means the block
> continues until EOF and is not indented.  Good for big, long classes
> that take up a whole module.  Been suggested before, I'm sure.

i don't see any advantages for that. it's a very suptile difference almost 
not viewable those "::", it makes code bad readable.
doesn't your editor has auto indentation? don't use notepad an switch to a 
real editor <wink>.

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>




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