In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Hobbs
wrote:
> Python is already sensitive to whitespace and the newline anyway, so why
> not put it to good use? For example, Python rejects this statement
> because of the newline present:
> if self.hungry or
> self.depressed:
> self.eat()
> You need to use the backslash to continue the expression on the next line:
> if self.hungry or \
> self.depressed:
> self.eat()
You don't need the backslash if you use parenthesis:
if (self.hungry
or self.depressed):
self.eat()
> I think the colon could be omitted from every type of compound
> statement: 'if', 'for', 'def', 'class', whatever. Am I missing anything?
I would miss auto-indenting in my editor to which the colon at the line
end is an important clue.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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