Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

[Dan Lenski]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Readability doesn't vary directly or inversely with the number of
> characters, even though it is affected when they change.

Good point!  Perl has more characters than Python, and I find they make
it harder to read because they are distracting.

Brainf*** (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainf***) only has 8 possible
characters, and it's hard to read because you can't easily recognize
repeating patterns or features.

I think this is something that typographers have been studying for
hundreds of years, how changing the shape of characters, page layout,
and typographical conventions affect the ability to easily read and
comprehend text.  I know that in college I hated one physics textbook
which used monospaced fonts... it was well-written but just hurt my
eyes to browse through.

Dan