Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Carl Banks]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Michael Hobbs <mike at hobbshouse.org> writes:
>
> > To be clear, this is the actual thrust of my argument. It seems
> > redundant to have *both* line continuations and colons in compound
> > statements.
>
> Why are you trying to remove redundancy? The language is designed for
> communication between people (programmers) primarily. Redundancy is
> often the best way to be explicit and readable.

Well, Python *is* quite a notorious redundancy minimizer....


Carl Banks