>>> Anyway, the FAQ answer seems to be a weak argument to me. >> I agree. I was expecting something more technical to justify >> the colon, not just that it looks better. > > I think it is outstanding that the colon's justification is > asthetic rather than technical (though I too had expected to see > a technical excuse for it).
Though by such justifications based on asthetics, the interpreter should also enforce that class-names begin with capital letters, that camel-case is eschewed in favor of underscore_separation. And perhaps enforce a 79-column character limit on text. Perhaps also put a cap on the number of punctuation characters on a given line as well to prevent the code from looking too much like Perl... ;*) A few arbitrary warts per-dictum of BDFL are fine though...it still looks much cleaner compared to PHP & Perl ;-) Shaving-with-Occam's-disposable-razor'ly yers... -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
