Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Georg Brandl]

Ron Adam wrote:
> Michael Hobbs wrote:
> 
>> The same problem that is solved by not having to type parens around the 
>> 'if' conditional, a la C and its derivatives. That is, it's unnecessary 
>> typing to no good advantage, IMHO. I was coding in Ruby for several 
>> months and got very comfortable with just typing the if conditional and 
>> hitting return, without any extra syntax. When I came back to Python, I 
>> found that I felt annoyed every time I typed the colon, since it 
>> obviously isn't required. The FAQ says that the colon increases 
>> readability, but I'm skeptical. The indentation seems to provide more 
>> than enough of a visual clue as to where the if conditional ends.
> 
> I'm not sure why '\'s are required to do multi-line before the colon.

Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.

Georg