Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2006-11-10, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     Neil> The colon's main purpose seems to be to allow one-liners:
>
>     Neil> Easy to parse: if a < b: a += 1
>     Neil> Hard to parse if a < b a += 1
>
> No, as the note from Tim Peters referenced by Robert Kern
> pointed out earlier in this thread, the ABC language designers
> found that indentation-based block structure by itself wasn't
> enough to clue new users in about the code structure.  Adding
> the colon at the end of the if/while/for clause helped.

Thanks. I worded that lousily.

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