Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Ben Finney]

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.

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Ben Finney